Released to the public this month, Success and Dyslexia is a new resource aimed at helping dyslexics manage their disability and take control of their lives.

On June 26, 2011, the International Dyslexia Association announced a new initiative to support the parents of dyslexic children by offering them a discounted membership to the IDA site.

Experienced teacher Joan Brennan, wanting to help her students focus on the texts they were trying to read so that they would comprehend them better, invented the Reading Focus Card.

New neurological studies are showing that our knowledge of how the human brain functions and learns could be the key to more effective teaching of children with learning disabilities.

Forty-five out of fifty states have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a set of state-led educational standards

Dyslexic children and adults who undergo reading intervention have demonstrated behavioral improvements including improved single word reading, pseudoword reading, reading comprehension, phonemic awareness, rapid naming, and symbol imagery.

Marilyn Nippold succinctly highlights the reasons that speech-language pathologists belong in the classroom working side by side with classroom teachers to assist children with language disorders.

According to recent findings released by the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain, and Languages (Spain), human beings have an amazing ability to mentally rotate words and letters reflected in a mirror during the early stages of visual processing, allowing for automatic understanding.

In an article published by The Wall Street Journal on June 20, British researchers claim to have identified a link between musical ability and reading comprehension.

As reported by The Wall Street Journal in its July 5 issue, emergent research in neuroscience and fMRI imaging suggests that dyslexics have an easier time learning pictorial languages—like Chinese and Japanese— than they do languages like English.