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  • Improving Reading Fluency

    June 5, 2025
  • Michigan Dyslexia Research Guide to Help Improve Literacy Skills

    The new Michigan dyslexia research guide will help both educators and students improve literacy skills and build more successful learners.

    January 12, 2024
  • New Podcast! Sold A Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

    New podcast investigates the widespread failure to teach reading in schools.

    January 12, 2024
  • Bringing structured, phonics-based reading lessons into the classroom

    A new article from TIME looks into the push to bring phonics to the forefront of reading instruction.

    January 12, 2024
  • Pushing Your Chips Across the Table

    Dr. Pierson shares a short reflection about betting on the success of your students and the transformative power of praise.

    December 9, 2025
  • Syllable Division: New Data that Can Inform Intervention

    Recent research efforts by Devin Kearns, Ph.D. of the University of Connecticut examine whether patterns of syllable division provide a meaningful benefit to learners in a clinical setting. Findings indicate that patterns may be less useful than previously thought and are best applied as a part of a well rounded clinical strategy.

    May 1, 2025
  • Remote Learning For Students with Dyslexia

    How do I best support my students with dyslexia during this time of social distancing during COVID-19?

    April 19, 2025
  • Mississippi Teaches Us Something about Reading

    What is going on in Mississippi? In 2013 the state began making big investments in training its teachers in the science of reading. And the investments seems to be getting results.

    January 12, 2024
  • Diagnosing Dyslexia with Only Two Assessments

    I am a special education teacher. I wanted to ask which assessment(s) you would recommend to diagnose dyslexia if I were to purchase just one or two assessments. Let's say that I already know that the student has an average IQ, so I don't need an aptitude test.

    April 19, 2025
  • School Principal Wondering How To Help Parent Get Their Child Tested for Dyslexia

    I've just changed jobs from classroom teacher to assistant principal. Part of my responsibilities is with our child study team. We have a young man whose parents believe that he is dyslexic and when his mom talked to the pediatrician was told that testing can be done at school. When I checked in with my special education experts, they said that we do not do dyslexia testing. They can check for a learning disability, but apparently, they don't definitively say dyslexia. I am at a loss for how to direct this parent.

    April 19, 2025
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