Mayor Mattie Parker says the screenings are part of the “all-hands-on-deck approach” the city needs around reading.

In authorizing the screeners, the Legislature and Newsom emphasized that screening will not serve as a diagnosis for reading disabilities, including dyslexia, which is estimated to affect 5% to 15% of ...

Although learning disabilities are quite common ... and interrupting. Dyslexia Dyslexia affects a person’s reading and language processing skills. Dyslexia can cause a person to reverse ...

They agreed that such screeners, while identifying children who may face difficulty learning how to read, should not be used to diagnose dyslexia or other reading disabilities or to segregate students ...

V/O: We asked pupils with dyslexia to tell us what school and learning is like for them and pull together some top tips and hints which will help them in the classroom. When we do guided reading ...

This article was originally published in Nebraska Examiner. LINCOLN — A first-of-its-kind statewide report related to reading and dyslexia for Nebraska K-12 students shows strides in addressing ...

Dyslexia is the most prevalent learning disability with an estimated 250,000 ... Currently, most school district reading assessments don’t adequately screen for dyslexia and thousands of ...

A student reading at Stege Elementary School in Richmond. (File photo by Shelby Knowles/CalMatters) I adopted my son Sebastian at birth. He was a bright, curious little boy who hit all the ...