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  • Reading the Situation: The Relationship Between Dyslexia and Situational Awareness for Road Sign Information

    A recent study suggests situational awareness instruction may be doubly important for novice drivers with dyslexia.

    January 16, 2024
  • Structured Literacy: Setting the Stage for Student Literacy Success

    The explicit and systematic instructional approach of Structured Literacy ensures students build their skills in each component area of literacy.

    December 9, 2025
  • Seven Helpful Text-to-Speech Readers for Back to School

    Here are seven helpful text-to-speech applications that are great assistive technology tools.

    June 22, 2026
  • Mother Wondering about Spelling and Word Recognition for Sixth Grader

    I am in need of help. My child is in 6th grade reading at a 1.3 reading level. I have been told by several of her teachers that they feel like she has dementia when it comes to spelling and word recognition. They have told me with some of her memory issues that she may never read. I need help advocating for her.

    April 24, 2025
  • Son Having Reading Difficulties

    My son is six years old and has been having reading difficulties and is starting to reverse his letters and numbers. Dyslexia is a concern of mine and the elementary school in which he attends does not seem to want to help me with testing. Is this something that you do at your facility?

    April 24, 2025
  • Tech: Arnold Reading Magic

    Arnold Reading Magic is an application for the iPad that combines reading and spelling learning with the success of flashcard studying.

    September 3, 2025
  • Research: Connections Between Reading and the Brain for Children

    Standford University’s Bruce McCandliss and his colleagues Yuliya Yoncheva and Jessica Wise conducted an experiment hoping to shed some light on a connection between the way a child learns how to read and the brain’s changing circuitry.

    January 16, 2024
  • Tech: NaturalReader

    NaturalReader 13 is a text-to-speech software that has a larger selection of natural sounding read-back voices than most similar software.

    January 16, 2024
  • How New Findings May Help Struggling Readers

    Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, a team of researchers at Yale monitored the brains of both nonimpaired (NI) and dyslexic (DYS) readers, finding that the DYS readers showed divergent connectivity when reading, meaning their brain didn’t regularly make the connection between the visual properties of a word and the semantic properties, or meaning of the word.

    January 17, 2024
  • Reading Rainbow

    Reading Rainbow is an application for both Apple and Android products that makes over 500 hundred fiction and non-fiction books and supplementary videos available to your child or student.

    January 17, 2024
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