Apple recently released iOS 8, the latest software update for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, including updates for iDevice users that include many new features for accessibility and assistive technologies for people with reading disabilities, dyslexia, low vision, blindness, and others with reading troubles.

Sprint recently launched the Neurodiversity ID pack, a bundle of mobile applications targeted at helping individuals with cognitive and neurodevelopmental disabilities such as dyslexia and dyspraxia.

​A new state law in Illinois entitles dyslexic students to special education services, and it creates a reading instruction advisory group that will train educators on how to identify and teach students with dyslexia.

A recent study from the University of Toronto and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill reports that adults who have dyslexia are much more likely to report that they were physically abused before they turned 18 than their peers without dyslexia.

Dr. Michael Ryan reflects on how audiobooks have helped him throughout his life.

Biologists at UC San Diego have recently conducted a detailed study of the neurons linking the eyes and the brains of mice hoping to discover how much our perceptions of the outside world are processed in the cortex.

Dyslexia: The Art of Struggle showcases dyslexic individuals and how their struggles have shown who they are and how they have learned to succeed.

DIY.org, a site that helps children gain skills and meet others who share their interests, allows kids to have their own portfolio where they can share what they do as well as earn skill patches for completing sets of challenges.

A recent study from Harvard School of Public Health and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai shows that toxic chemicals may be triggering the recent increases in neurodevelopmental disabilities among children including dyslexia.

A Padagogy Wheel (typo intended) created by Allan Carrington offers a useful perspective on how to figure out which iPad apps work with Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.