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A Dyslexia Awareness Month Chat with Dr. Pierson
This Capital Area District Library CADL Cast podcast features Dr. Pierson talking about dyslexia and DyslexiaHelp as part of the library’s efforts to highlight Dyslexia Awareness month.
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New Study Shows Ability of Dyslexic Students to Succeed in College and Beyond
A new study finds that when "intellectually able and motivated students with dyslexia are given academic opportunity at a rigorous institution they can succeed academically, professionally, and personally".
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Equipped for Reading Success
Equipped For Reading Success is a comprehensive step-by-step program that bolsters phonemic awareness and fluent word recognition in order to promote orthographic mapping.
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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.
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Bar Prep Buddy
Shaun Sanders, whose story of growing up with dyslexia, putting his faith in his strengths and accepting his weaknesses through high school, college, and then law school was featured on Dyslexia Help a few years ago. Nearly 5 years later, Shaun has launched a...
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Audio Books vs. Reading
Read moreIf you think listening to an audiobook isn’t as effective as good old fashioned reading, you may want to learn about some new research that compared the two.
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Early Reading Development Research
This study investigated the predictive relationship between key phonological language skills and early reading development in a sample of 191 children, averaging 4 years and 6 months in age. In addition, this study explored the theory that the failure to establish an automatic association between letters and speech sounds is a proximal causal risk...
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Should You Discuss Your Dyslexia Or Keep It Private?
When should you tell people about your dyslexia? And when is it better to keep it private? As a self-help leader and an activist in the field, it was necessary for me to talk about it publicly, but many people are successful in their fields who keep their dyslexia a secret. What should you do? Here are three times you should...
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Response To The PBS Letter
Read moreYou may have seen a recent letter to PBS from “experienced senior scholars in the field of reading and literacy education” that took issue with an April 30, 2019 PBS special on dyslexia. In part, the signers call into question the ability to reliably assess and diagnose dyslexia, as well as treat it. I, and other colleagues who have the privilege to work every day with individuals with dyslexia (i.e., provide assessment, diagnosis, and intervention), found this letter extremely...
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Leela Kids Podcast App
Summer is the perfect time to help children’s interests guide them in what they explore and learn about. Podcasts, or spoken audio, can be both educational and entertaining, are free, and cover a wide range of topics. But it can be difficult to find just the right content.