Children with a reading disability need to use an inordinate amount of energy practising these skills. And when children struggle to read fluidly, reading isn't fun for them and they avoid it. A ...

Supporters say the change would improve dyslexia identification practices, but critics worry it could delay interventions and ...

Children who are poor readers appear to have a disruption in the part of their brain involved in reading phonetically, according to a sophisticated brain imaging study funded by the National Institute ...

Michelle Lintner is one in about 300, but her attitude is likely one in a million. The 18-year-old senior at Sonoran Science Academy, 2255 W. Ina Road, recently found out she is the lone recipient out ...

You, your child, or someone you know has dyslexia. More than 40 million US adults and 15% to 20% of the kids in our schools have dyslexia, with only 5% receiving a diagnosis. Dyslexia is a ...

In a talk titled “Disability Bioethics: Toward Theory and Practice,” Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, an English professor and the co-director of the Disability Studies Initiative at Emory University, ...

Tim Odegard, a professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, has personal experience with teachers who did not believe in his intelligence because of a discredited dyslexia screening ...

When Leah Rumbarger adds up the dollars her family has spent on education services for her dyslexic daughters, she wonders how most people could ever afford it. Her family spent $4,000 for two ...

Just 1.2% of public school third graders were held back after a controversial reading and retention law took effect in Tennessee this year. In May, the Tennessee Department of Education reported that ...

Julia Watts Belser has written a book about joy, a political manifesto, a cry from the heart, and a spiritual companion. A queer and feminist rabbi, spiritual teacher, scholar of disability in both ...