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Understanding Dyslexia in Children: A Comprehensive Guide

Reading is a complex act. It involves many processes and skills that all have to act at once. Children with dyslexia have severe difficulty with reading and, because of that, also with spelling. Our 'Understanding Dyslexia in Children' guide promises to answer many questions.

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Overcome Reading Comprehension Difficulties (Program Included)

Reading comprehension is the heart and goal of reading, since the purpose of all reading is to gather meaning from the printed page. We provide a comprehensive program for schoolchildren and homeschoolers with reading comprehension difficulties.

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Dyslexia Treatment Program Based on 4 Pillars

Dyslexia treatment based on four pillars: (1.) the Orton-Gillingham approach, (2.) cognitive training, (3.) the development of two crucial brain areas for reading, and (4.) solid learning principles. Is there, at last, some light at the end of the tunnel?

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11 Dyslexia Success Stories of Children and Students

Eleven children who overcame dyslexia symptoms and how their parents helped them do it.

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Matthew Effect in Reading: Why Children with Reading Difficulties Fall Farther and Farther Behind

Matthew Effect is sometimes summarized by the adage ”the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” In the case of young readers, good readers read more and get better at reading, whereas less-skilled readers read less and fall farther and farther behind their peers.

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Sequencing Difficulties: A Symptom of Dyslexia

Sequencing refers to our ability to perceive items in a specific order and remember that sequence. In saying the days of the week, months of the year, a telephone number, the alphabet, and counting, the order of the elements is paramount.

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Rapid Automatized Naming and Dyslexia

Rapid automatized naming (RAN) refers to the speed with which the names of symbols (letters, numbers, colors, or pictured objects) can be retrieved from long-term memory. People with dyslexia typically score poorer on RAN assessments than typical readers.

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Dyslexia and the Brain: What Research Studies Reveal

Structural and functional brain differences between dyslexic and typical readers are discussed. What do these differences mean for people with dyslexia?

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Comorbidity of Dyslexia: 5 Related Disorders

Comorbidity is the presence of one or more additional medical conditions co-occurring or coexisting with a primary condition. Approximately 60 percent of people with dyslexia also meet the criteria for at least one disorder.

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How Is Dyslexia Diagnosed?

How a dyslexia diagnosis is made. What is the difference between dyslexia screening and dyslexia testing? Who can make a dyslexia diagnosis?

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Reading Skills: 8 Types that Matter, How to Improve Them

Reading skills allow a person to decode, read, comprehend, and interpret the written word. We discuss types of reading skills, stages of development and improving reading.

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Good Readers with Poor Comprehension

A common reading disorder goes undiagnosed until it becomes problematic, according to the results of a five-year study published online in the journal Brain Connectivity.

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