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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

The Reading Teacher is a peer-reviewed journal serving teachers and literacy professionals interested in the teaching of reading to children in the elementary classroom. The journal offers teaching ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Nary Hong acknowledges the Australian Government's support through the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. The 2019 Australian Conference of Economists is taking place in ...