In the world of ever-changing labels, four learning differences with very similar-sounding names stand out. Those four differences are...

In the world of special education and special services, it is not unusual to hear the terms accommodations and modifications used to...

Summer vacation is coming to a close for many of our students. With the start of a new school year comes a possible hectic morning...

What is dysgraphia? How does it relate to dyslexia? Are dysgraphia identification and remediation similar to dyslexia identification and...

You are excited to start your year off right. You walk into your classroom and see twenty-three sweet faces looking back at you, excited...

What is dyslexia? Dyslexia can be evidenced in many different ways, in many people- even within families. What can be confusing is the...

Breve… macron… combinations… digraphs. What are these strange words? They sound vaguely familiar. Your student identified with dyslexia...

Research has shown that dyslexia is neurological in origin. This means that dyslexia is not caused by poverty, developmental...

Things are going well for your child identified with dyslexia. They are receiving dyslexia instruction with fidelity in an appropriate...

Does your dyslexic student come home from school and yell, or melt down during family time? Do they become very defiant about the timely...

Your student is bright, curious, and could charm the birds out of the trees with his oral persuasive skills. You would think his grades...

For students identified with dyslexia, learning a foreign language  is a whole new world, which opens up many opportunities for them: It...

Spelling is a crucial aspect of literacy development, and it is especially important for those students identified with dyslexia. Most...

There is a lot of discussion in the education world about the science of reading, structured literacy, and OG. But what does this mean...

Ahhhh… summer. Time for  lazy summer days, swim lessons, cookouts, late nights and even later wake-ups. It’s a time for our students (and...

“Letters are the written symbols that are cognitively processed to make reading possible.”     -Adams, 2002 Dyslexia instruction goes far...

Let’s try an activity together. Say the word “cat”. Now say “cat” again, but substitute (k) with (b). What word did you just say? (bat)....

We hear it all the time. As teachers, we instruct our students to clap out or count the syllables in a word during reading instruction....

As educators, we have all heard of curriculum fidelity. But did you realize that curriculum fidelity is so much more than just the...

Morphology or morphological awareness. We all have heard about it. Maybe you have a working knowledge of what it is. You may even know...