Some parents in the West Ada School District are calling for more action to help students with dyslexia. West Ada School District Board Chair Lori Frasure hosted a town hall meeting at Owyhee High ...

Children who have difficulty sounding out words, struggle to learn letter names and sounds, or become easily frustrated by reading activities may be having more problems than most students when ...

Normally dyslexia is considered a handicap: a mental deficiency that makes reading, long-division and remembering whether letters and numbers face left or right difficult. Challenging this view, ...

One complicating factor is that the word 'dyslexia' is used to describe a number of unrelated conditions with similar symptoms. It was discovered a few years ago that one cause of dyslexia is a ...

Until recently, I’d thought of dyslexia as merely a deficit in reading or spelling, perhaps caused by a neurological deficit. Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide, the world’s preeminent researchers on the ...

The parents of the advocacy group Decoding Dyslexia Wisconsin pressed for years to see this 11-word definition enshrined in state law: “Dyslexia means a specific learning disability that is ...

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Siena Elementary School teacher Carissa Yesford gives a math lesson to her second-grade class. Sarah A. Miller smiller@idahostatesman.com Some parents in the West Ada School District are calling for ...