When I started working with students who have learning disabilities back in 1990, the research on dyslexia was really starting to take off. Researchers had recently been able to pinpoint the sections of the brain that were involved through fMRI images and to refine their definition of dyslexia…
Working with math students at ALP involves a lot of exploration of numbers related to a student’s concrete understanding. For example…
Handwriting is a hot topic among educators at the moment. What with technological advancements, core curriculum requirements, the need to prepare students for standardized testing..
A friend recently sent me an article on a new font “designed to help dyslexics read” called Dyslexia. I love when my friends send me articles or ask me questions about dyslexia because it means I am spreading the word…
New research shows there is an anatomical difference between the brains of males and females diagnosed with dyslexia…
We’ve heard and read a lot about the brain’s executive function capabilities throughout the years. Research has been exploring and defining executive function for decades now…
Many children who come to our clinic struggle with poor handwriting issues. We have a successful handwriting program and many children demonstrate great improvement after receiving this treatment…
The Winter 2013 issue of Perspectives – a quarterly magazine published by IDA – delivered the second part of the technology discussion started in the fall of 2013. Here is our take on it…
The fall issue of Perspectives, (IDA’s quarterly publication), is devoted to technology and dyslexia. In fact, when the editors started sorting through the articles to consider they quickly decided it would take two issues to properly cover all the pertinent aspects of this subject…
The title reads “Not all reading disabilities are dyslexia”. It certainly caught my eye. Plenty of the students we see can read the words just fine. They can spell anything. What they can’t do is understand what they are reading…