Here we performed a genome-wide association study of 51,800 adults self-reporting a dyslexia diagnosis and 1,087,070 controls and identified 42 independent genome-wide significant loci: 15 in genes linked to cognitive ability/educational attainment, and 27 new and potentially more specific to ...
A double-blind study, with a group of 16 treated and 14 control dyslexics followed for 6 months, showed a significant improvement in global leximetric testing in reading regular words and irregular words, as well as in tests of orthographic decision making. On the other hand, there was ...
Maddie had testing done at our local school this week. They said that she is reading at about a third grade level, and they also felt that her writing was at about a third grade level. That is pretty amazing, since both were at a Kindergarten level only 6 months ago! They said she ...
While this “pulling back of the curtain” on American education left me disheartened, frustrated and often sleepless, it also ignited a passion in me. It is a passion so strong that I left my successful career as a PR practitioner to start an advocacy education consultancy. I dove deep int...
Accuracy data (percentage of errors) for zigzag novel words (NW) as a function of testing sessions, separately for the two groups of children. Filled circles: dyslexic children; open circles: controls. Accuracy data were fit by power functions separately for the groups of dyslexic children (cont...
At or near the top of the pile of achievement-based teaching (ie I want you to give me the answer to this question, now!) is learning times tables by rote. And in February this year we find Nick Gibb telling an education select committee that times tables testing would be returning to...