As a prison reform bill makes its way through Congress, a local actor and Louisiana senator are pushing for a targeted change for inmates. They say undiagnosed and untreated dyslexia is a direct ...
As the children in our community head back to school, it’s timely to share some very important information about dyslexia, a common condition that is widely misunderstood: Individuals with dyslexia ...
There are some people—incredibly intelligent people, no less—for whom a grasp of numbers is entirely elusive. Is 6 bigger than 5? What is halfway between 200 and 400? If I give you $10 for a $7.50 ...
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, and I would like to thank my daughter for allowing me to write about her dyslexia in order to help others. According to the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity ...
It may look like arts and crafts, but when Nicolas Lafreniere plays with balls of clay, he's actually learning the basics of math. As the Vancouver child moves a clay rope up and down a grid of balls ...
Texas was a pioneer in treating students with dyslexia, becoming the first state to pass some type of dyslexia education law in 1985. Afterward, 27 states followed suit. But in the three decades since ...
Scientists have for the first time pinpointed a large number of genes that are reliably associated with dyslexia. Around a third of the 42 genetic variants identified have been previously linked to ...
THE number of Scots schoolchildren with dyslexia has almost doubled in two years. Shocking new figures show 4169 youngsters with the learning disability in classrooms last year, compared with 2875 in ...
There are more kids who suffer from 'number blindness', the disorder that makes it difficult for them to understand maths and numbers. There are more kids who suffer from 'number blindness', the ...
Thirty-eight members consisting of 14 DD subjects and 24 related/unrelated non-dyslexic controls from 10 families were initially recruited for the study. DD subjects were certified as having dyslexia ...