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 ...
The Manitoba Human Rights Commission released the first phase of their report exploring students’ rights to access ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Boys were two to three times more likely than girls to be affected by reading disabilities, according to a Mayo Clinic study of 5,718 children in Rochester, Minn. ROCHESTER, MINN. -- Boys were two to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jonathan Reovan picks his daughter up from school to take her to a reading tutor. The family has spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to get reading support for their two children. Credit: ...
The sampling frame for this study was the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), a large-scale longitudinal study of behavioural development in a representative sample of twins born in 1994, 1995 and ...