Some parents in the West Ada School District are calling for more action to help students with dyslexia. West Ada School District Board Chair Lori Frasure hosted a town hall meeting at Owyhee High ...

Battling for everything she gets is nothing new for Janae Camp. As one of Johanna and Reginald Camp’s 18 children, she is used to earning what she receives at home. Her play on the basketball court ...

Children diagnosed with dyslexia show greater emotional reactivity than children without dyslexia, according to a new collaborative study. Children diagnosed with dyslexia show greater emotional ...

Until recently, I’d thought of dyslexia as merely a deficit in reading or spelling, perhaps caused by a neurological deficit. Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide, the world’s preeminent researchers on the ...

Though dyslexia may affect up to 1 in 5 people, misconceptions about the neurological disorder continue to stymie how dyslexic students in Massachusetts and beyond are identified and supported. A ...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) defines dyslexia as a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read (see here). The ...

The parents of the advocacy group Decoding Dyslexia Wisconsin pressed for years to see this 11-word definition enshrined in state law: “Dyslexia means a specific learning disability that is ...

Dyslexia affects 15-20% of people, according to the International Dyslexia Association, but from slow or inaccurate reading to poor spelling to trouble with comprehension, the severity of dyslexia ...

A UC San Francisco-developed tool to detect early signs of literacy weaknesses that could lead to dyslexia got a boost in the California governor’s recent budget proposal, and could be in widespread ...

More dyslexic kids across Colorado should be diagnosed early on in their childhoods, should two bills passed in the state’s last legislative session have their intended effects. Senate Bill 200 ...

Siena Elementary School teacher Carissa Yesford gives a math lesson to her second-grade class. Sarah A. Miller smiller@idahostatesman.com Some parents in the West Ada School District are calling for ...