I ran across your website and wanted to ask you for some advice. I recently met with my niece who is almost 30 years old and she told me she has never finished a book and she thinks she is dyslexic. I wanted to send her a young adult book in an area she is interested in and encourage her to read it and we can talk about it when she is finished. What do you think?

My son will be eleven in June. He just had formal testing for dyslexia and was rated “Profound.” I am in over my head! Do you know of programs that would help us? (He's at a 6th grade level for some stuff, 5th grade for most, and under a 2nd grade eye reading level) He is smart! If you know of any places, I'd love to hear about them!

I have a 3rd grader with suspected dyslexia, and I'm curious about an evaluation. Can I please get information on how this works, cost, whether or not I need a doctor’s referral, does insurance cover this, etc?

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In this TEDx Talk, Spanish researcher Luz Rello discusses her recent advancements in dyslexic technology and addresses the way in which we must view improvements to the dyslexic community. She shares the idea behind variation of text formatting to create higher levels of readability. By running multiple tests with students, Rello and her team have been able to create the first developing reader for dyslexics.

My daughter is nine years old and is in 4th grade. She has always had difficulty reading, spelling, and with memory in general. She took a common dyslexia test as part of the assessment called the Jordan test that she scored very poorly on that warrants us to want to investigate dyslexia as a possible disability. I assume that our next step is to seek a professional evaluation for dyslexia. I’ve looked at the IDA provider directory. There appears to be several providers in our state, but none closer to our home. Are there any reputable providers closer to our area that are not listed on eida.org? If not, is there another area provider that you would recommend for our situation?

I am currently writing what I hope will be a "parent friendly" article on tests of Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN), why we look at this when evaluating for reading disorders, and current theories on the underlying cognitive processes it actually measures. There are many conflicting theories (as you know). I am particularly unclear as to whether this is always measured as a component of dyslexia testing, and whether people with dyslexia sometimes perform well on measures of phonological processing, but poorly on RAN tasks?

My son is 6 years old (in first grade). We noticed a problem with his learning and behavior last year, but it took us a while to realize it went beyond "boys will be boys" and "boys learn slower" etc. I took him to a neurologist because of his inability to focus on anything and he was diagnosed with ADHD. They also wanted to run a series of cognitive tests which I turned down, because we have had enough testing for awhile. He was simultaneously being tested in school for various things. Should I go through with the testing from the neurologist? Is there any additional benefits to have him officially labeled with dyslexia from a doctor as opposed to having him labeled with a disability from the DOE?

ChromaGen colored lenses have been approved to aid in the treatment of visual problems, but they have not been approved to treat dyslexia.

The following was written by a very ambitious, intelligent, and confident dyslexic law student named Shaun Sanders, who got in touch with us via Reddit in May of 2013 and offered to share his remarkable story.