Sandman-Hurley helped found the Dyslexia Training Institute in 2008, after she and her friend worked at READ/San Diego, an adult literacy program at the San Diego Public Library.

I am often asked if self-directed education works for children who are diagnosed with dyslexia. The usual assumption, in the special education world, is that such children cannot learn to read without ...

You’ve heard of dyslexia, but have you heard of dyscalculia? As educators, we’re well versed in teaching literacy, yet struggle when a student claims, “I’m just not good at math.” Instead of ...

Jason, a junior in my dyslexia intervention class, missed the lesson on consonant digraphs and silent e patterns. When I wrote phone on the board the next day and asked the class to pound the ...

Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Aniston... what do these celebrities have in common? Yes, they all make millions on the big screen, but all three also have dyslexia. It’s estimated that 1 in 10 ...

Catherine Drennan describes herself as insatiably curious, a trait she credits to her parents. Some of her first memories come from protest rallies and academic lectures that her mom attended while ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Source: Pixy/Creative Commons ...

A new short film hopes to shine a light on the strengths of dyslexia which are often overlooked ...

Dleyxisa is the msot commoc lriaeng bisatility. Tricky, no? Let’s try that again. Dyslexia is the most common learning disability. People with dyslexia — including roughly 60 million Americans — do ...

Around one in ten children in the UK have dyslexia, a developmental condition which means that they struggle to learn to read. It often causes difficulties in spelling too. Reading and spelling ...

“P-E-O-P-L-E,” chanted a group of several dozen Treasure Valley school teachers, tapping outstretched left arms once for each letter they sounded out. The ritual was a science-based method for ...

You, your child, or someone you know has dyslexia. More than 40 million US adults and 15% to 20% of the kids in our schools have dyslexia, with only 5% receiving a diagnosis. Dyslexia is a ...