Dyslexia, also known as Reading Disorder, is a learning disorder that causes individuals difficulty with reading individual words or sentences and pronouncing words. Individuals with dyslexia can also struggle with other skills related to reading, such as reading comprehension, spelling, and writing.
Fact #1: Dyslexia can be successfully treated!
Research suggests that the most severely reading-disabled students can make an average of a standard deviation of improvement on nationally normed reading tests! The key to a successful intervention, research has shown us, includes:
There are several myths associated with dyslexia, many of which have fortunately been clarified and better understood as a result of years of research on the manifestation and characteristics of the disorder. It is important to understand the myths surrounding dyslexia
