Reading disabilities that appear suddenly in older children may be overlooked, finds a recent study. Troubles with reading and comprehension typically are diagnosed when students are beginning to read ...

In second grade, Jose Alvarez struggled to read. He had fallen behind early in school. His older brothers and mother are dyslexic, and the family feared that Jose might have a learning disability too.

Disabled students continue to face barriers constructed and enforced by our schools. The United Nations Educational, ...

My colleague Katie Ash recently wrote a fine article on the use of e-readers with students who have reading disabilities. My takeaway is that the jury is still out on the usefulness of such devices as ...

Many children who have reading difficulties such as dyslexia also struggle with math—and educators need to be prepared to address both issues, as well as the behavior problems that may arise in ...

As fall school routines settle down, for many families whose children struggle with reading, it could mean another year of stress and financial burden as they navigate school systems to advocate for ...

Jamie Bennetts created a spreadsheet of every child’s reading scores in the small Knightsen Elementary School District a few summers ago, identified the laggers and greeted them in the fall with state ...

The long-range objectives of the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center (CLDRC) are the identification, characterization, validation and amelioration of reading disabilities (both word-level ...

This study addressed the validity of using a five-stage multifaceted approach to defining reading disabilities. The selection criteria generally represented key features of the reading disability ...

YOUR child may sometimes write the word "dog" with two o's in the middle instead of one, and other times "dgo" or perhaps "bog." Then know this: Spelling the same word wrong in different ways is a red ...

Current approaches to identifying students with reading disabilities are often problematic and ineffective, and will not lead students to academic success. However, there have been significant ...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and developmental reading disability are complex childhood disorders that frequently occur together; if a child is experiencing trouble with reading, ...