One of the most challenging aspects of properly addressing the different brains of dyslexic children is recognizing them in the first place. Dyslexia occurs on a continuum and there is no “sharp ...

March 15 -- Millions of English-speaking dyslexics might cope better with their reading disability if their mother tongue weren't so tricky, a group of scientists said today. A new study of the brain ...

February 19, 2026 - Arizona State University wants Cal Grants for its California-based students, but California officials say its not eligible. In the push to screen all California students for ...

When English-speaking children with dyslexia begin to read, they face the awesome task of learning more than 1,100 ways that letters in the written language are used to symbolize the 40 sounds in the ...

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

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A UC San Francisco-developed tool to detect early signs of literacy weaknesses that could lead to dyslexia got a boost in the California governor’s recent budget proposal, and could be in widespread ...

It was Amy Carpio’s mom who first noticed her language challenges. When speaking in Spanish at home, the girl sometimes mixed up the word order in her sentences, and she often stuttered or ...

Westerners shudder at the idea of reading even the most basic street signs and instructions in Chinese, a language with 6,000 characters to memorize to be considered fluent. A new set of brain images ...

In the push to screen all California students for dyslexia, some worry English learners will be mislabeled, making it harder for them to become fluent in the language. Gov. Gavin Newsom has set aside ...