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Reading & Dyslexia

Approximately 80 percent of students with learning disabilities have been described as reading disabled. Resources within this section provide information and advice on what parents and educators can do to help students with LD gain reading skills.

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Michael's Successful
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The Landmark program features explicit instruction, a slower pace, and lots of repetition to help students with dyslexia, like Michael.
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Ben
Ben may be dyslexic, but he's also a published author! With the help of people who believed in him, he was able to overcome his difficulties and write the children's book, My Year with Harry Potter.
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Rewiring the Brain
At the University of Texas–Houston, Dr. Papanicolau is using technology to show eight–year–old Peter Oathout his difficulties with reading are rooted in his brain.
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Biomapping the Brain
In Evanston, Illinois Dr. Nina Kraus thinks that Jenna’s reading problems may be related to the way her brain processes sound. To find out, Dr. Kraus is using some well–known technology in a new way.
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Reading & the Brain
Find out how the brain of a kid with reading problems, like Jonathan, handles reading differently than the brain of a strong reader.
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