Families with children who have dyslexia have long pushed lawmakers to respond to a pressing concern: Too many young students ...

Vanessa Silver, who tutors young children with dyslexia, works with Liina Yerro, 9, in Granada Hills. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) This year, for the first time, California schools will be ...

Can the state do more to help children who have trouble reading?

The State Department’s recent reversal of a 2023 decision to switch from Times New Roman to Calibri revived a decades-old debate over whether certain typefaces improve accessibility, particularly for ...

Up to 20% of the population experiences symptoms of dyslexia, a lifelong neurological disorder that makes it difficult to read fluently. Examining why dyslexia happens — and how we intervene — has ...

For children with dyslexia, reading is a struggle and a barrier to success in school and in life. Dyslexia is neurological in origin, impacting the portion of the brain that enables students to ...

Anywhere from 5 to 20 percent of the population struggles with dyslexia, a learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and how they relate to letters ...

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In a just-released article entitled “The ‘Reading Brain’ is Taught, Not Born” cognitive neuroscientists Rebecca Gotlieb, Laura Rhinehart, and Maryanne Wolf are unambiguous in reporting “…the study 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 milestones ...

This story features Beeline Reader for enhanced readability. Click to turn the feature on or off. Learn more about this technology here. At school, Taylor’s daughter had a special education plan that ...

This year, for the first time, California schools will be screening kindergarteners, first- and second-graders for reading difficulties, including dyslexia, under a state mandate signed into law by ...