Friend-of-the-blog John Wills Lloyd has written about an interesting study in the latest issue of Pediatrics on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and its correlation to reading disabilities.

Reading disabilities that appear suddenly in older children may be overlooked, finds a recent study. Troubles with reading and comprehension typically are diagnosed when students are beginning to read ...

In second grade, Jose Alvarez struggled to read. He had fallen behind early in school. His older brothers and mother are dyslexic, and the family feared that Jose might have a learning disability too.

Jamie Bennetts created a spreadsheet of every child’s reading scores in the small Knightsen Elementary School District a few summers ago, identified the laggers and greeted them in the fall with state ...

There is a significant interaction between parents' years of education and the heritability of reading disability. Researchers concluded that on average, poor instruction or lack of reading practice ...

Teenagers with reading problems are at significantly higher risk for suicide and for dropping out of school than typical readers, according to a study by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ...

In A Nutshell Ancient origins: Genes linked to dyslexia date back over 430 million years to early vertebrates: they’re not ...

The sampling frame for this study was the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), a large-scale longitudinal study of behavioural development in a representative sample of twins born in 1994, 1995 and ...

Many children who have reading difficulties such as dyslexia also struggle with math—and educators need to be prepared to address both issues, as well as the behavior problems that may arise in ...

A state office, meant to help students with dyslexia and other reading challenges, isn’t doing the work it was created to do.

Nary Hong acknowledges the Australian Government's support through the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. The 2019 Australian Conference of Economists is taking place in ...