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Supporting delayed readers: Strategies for success

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Identifying the needs of struggling readers Supporting delayed readers involves evaluating the severity of the reading delay. Intensive interventions for students with reading disabilities: Meaningful impacts. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 30(2), 7378. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 49(2), 219232.

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With Rising Concerns About Dyslexia in Young Learners, Riverside Insights Introduces First-of-its Kind Playbook to Streamline Evaluations

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. – Riverside Insights ®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today debuted a new Assessment Playbook focused on streamlining the evaluation of dyslexia, the most common learning disability, affecting 20% of the population.

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Early screening and intervention are the key to math success

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But there’s a similar learning disability that is holding back the achievement of students in mathematics, and it’s much less widely known. As with reading disabilities, early identification can lead to timely and effective support, reducing students’ long-term struggles with math and boosting educational outcomes.

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

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1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. Even lengthy evaluations by specialists have all the same limitations. 15 The largest category is learning disabilities, mainly dyslexia. 16 Reading difficulties also occur across other disabilities such as autism and ADHD.

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Understanding dyslexia: Why early diagnosis and intervention matter 

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Eventually, I felt I had no choice but to finally take my son for a thorough evaluation that revealed not only ADHD but also dyslexia and dysgraphia, a writing-related learning disability. After my son’s evaluation, I knew I had to take action.

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Parallel Learning—Psychoeducational Telehealth Platform—Announces Official Launch Alongside $2.8m In Funding

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The company employs licensed psychologists, learning specialists, occupational therapists and more in each state and matches students with providers based on their referral concern and desired services. This proprietary technology cuts the evaluation time in half, allowing students to receive a full report within just two weeks.

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Don Johnston Incorporated Joins Texthelp Group; Edtech Giants Join Forces to Help Students Across North America and the Globe

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The company’s support and accessible technology is designed to accommodate children and adults with special needs and learning disabilities. Texthelp believes in a world where difference, disability, or language are no longer barriers. assistive tools every day to accommodate their learning needs in schools and at home.