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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. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Intensive interventions for students with reading disabilities: Meaningful impacts. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 30(2), 7378.

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Understanding dyslexia: Why early diagnosis and intervention matter 

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And his teachers simply weren’t equipped with the right tools–approaches based on the science of reading–to help him. 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.

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

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Even lengthy evaluations by specialists have all the same limitations. According to the DOE’s Institute of Education Sciences, this term can be used when there is a rationale, based on research findings, that the practice is likely to improve student outcomes, with ongoing efforts to examine such effects. 20k+ per year).

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More States Are Screening for Dyslexia. We Need a Plan for What Happens Next.

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In addition to screening support, I have trained thousands of teachers across multiple states and districts to use structured literacy, an approach rooted in the science of reading. But of these states, only 30 legally require an intervention for students with this extremely common learning disability.

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

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Even lengthy evaluations by specialists have all the same limitations. According to the DOE’s Institute of Education Sciences, this term can be used when there is a rationale, based on research findings, that the practice is likely to improve student outcomes, with ongoing efforts to examine such effects. 20k+ per year).

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This Neuroscientist Wants to Know Your Brain On Art—and How It Improves Learning

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So I connected with people who run the Learning and the Brain conference and began to attend. And in my own doctoral work here at Johns Hopkins I became interested in looking at the research on neuro and cognitive sciences and what of that is relevant to educators. How are you going to evaluate it? And mastery means memory.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

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School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. Wine in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science.

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