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Bar Prep Buddy
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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
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If 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
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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?
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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
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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.
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Times Tables 1x1
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In this free app, Leo the Lion teaches the basics of multiplication before putting them to the test. Compared to other multiplication apps, this puts a much greater emphasis on teaching the topic rather than just testing and practice.
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Tutorial: Exploring the Overlap Between Dyslexia and Speech Sound Production Deficits
Read moreTutorial: Exploring the Overlap Between Dyslexia and Speech Sound Production Deficits Authors: Kathryn L. Cabbage, Kelly Farquharson, Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel, Jennifer Zuk, Tiffany P. Hogan
Taking special consideration of the role of a speech-language pathologist (SLP) in a child’s development, this article looks at the relationship between dyslexia and speech sound production deficits. By synthesizing a variety of research, this article proposes a more active role for SLPs that...
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Phonological Awareness and RAN as Longitudinal Predictors of Reading in Five Alphabetic Orthographies
Read moreKarin Landerl, H. Harald Freudenthaler, Moritz Heene, Peter F. De Jong, Alain Desrochers, George Manolitsis, Rauno Parrila & George K. Georgiou (2018): Phonological Awareness and Rapid Automatized Naming as Longitudinal Predictors of Reading in Five Alphabetic Orthographies with Varying Degrees of Consistency, Scientific Studies of Reading, DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2018.1510936
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Connecting the Dots from Oral to Written Language
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A new study examines whether telling and retelling stories out loud in a classroom setting helps first-graders’ writing quality.
Authors: Trina D. Spencer and Douglas B. Petersen
(Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, Vol. 49, 569–581, July 2018)
