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June 29

Dyslexia Jun 29 Exam Accommodations Help Dyslexic Students Test. Intervention Helps Them Read. Ireland’s debate over how many extra exam minutes students with dyslexia deserve is real and important. The International Dyslexia Association says it is only half the conversation. Here is what…

June 28

Dyslexia Jun 28 Your Struggling Reader Was Never Bad at Science. Vanderbilt Proved It. Vanderbilt's Roberts Academy for Dyslexia ran a 14-week engineering curriculum this spring. Students with dyslexia designed, prototyped, and 3D-printed boats. Then they tested them. The results raise a question every… Dyslexia Jun 28 NYC Had 200,000 Dyslexic Students and No School Built for Them Five mothers. One documentary. The story of how NYC’s first public school designed for dyslexic readers came to exist — and what the largest school system in America was doing… Dyslexia Jun 28 Congress Backs Dyslexia Rights and Quietly Resurrects the IQ Trap A bipartisan bill would give dyslexia its own IDEA category for the first time. But 27 disability organizations are sounding the alarm: the definition could revive the IQ-based gatekeeping model… Dyslexia Jun 28 Congress Backs Dyslexia Rights and Quietly Resurrects the IQ Trap A bipartisan bill would give dyslexia its own IDEA category for the first time. But 27 disability organizations are sounding the alarm: the definition could revive the IQ-based gatekeeping model…

June 27

Dyslexia Jun 27 Berkeley Switched to Phonics After a Lawsuit. The Results Are In. It took a federal lawsuit, four years of negotiations, and nearly a decade of legal pressure. But Berkeley finally replaced balanced literacy with phonics instruction. Year one results are in:…

June 25

Dyslexia Jun 25 It Took a Lawsuit to Make Berkeley Teach Reading Right After a federal lawsuit, Berkeley finally replaced its guessing-based reading program with structured literacy, and its youngest readers posted strong gains. The science was settled decades ago. Here is why…

June 24

Dyslexia Jun 24 Dyslexia Is More Than a Reading Score, and That Cuts Both Ways A first-of-its-kind Harvard conference put the whole teenager at the center, not the reading score. The reframe is overdue and right. Here is the part a feel-good version leaves out,… Dyslexia Jun 24 Why Some Strong Talkers Still Struggle to Read, New Research Shows Some children talk a blue streak and still stall on the page. A new Current Biology study explains why, and it points to a brain system most reading screens never… Dyslexia Jun 24 Fort Worth Screens Thousands for Dyslexia. Identification Is Only Step One Fort Worth is screening up to 1,000 children for dyslexia this summer, far beyond the early grades. Finding them early is the right move. But identification is only step one,…