Growing rosters and excessive accommodations are making special education less effective for students who truly need it.
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Exploring Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
Stanford Study Finds Evidence-Based Reading Intervention Physically Rewires the Dyslexic Brain
Key findings include:
- Children who received intervention improved their reading levels by approximately one grade level in eight weeks.
- The Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), the brain region critical for fluent word recognition, grew larger and more detectable in students who received instruction.
- The VWFA did not show comparable growth in students who received no instruction.
- Some neurological differences persisted one year later, confirming that dyslexia reflects enduring brain traits alongside the brain’s capacity for change.
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Daily Inspiration: Meet Aimee Rodenroth
Today we’d like to introduce you to Aimee Rodenroth.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of North Texas in 1991. In 1992, I began my career in public education as a dyslexia teacher with a local school district, where I served for several years.
Committed to advancing my expertise in structured literacy and dyslexia intervention, I became a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) in 2006. In 2018, I further expanded my professional qualifications by earning my Qualified Instructor (QI) certification through Southern Methodist University.
In 2021, I transitioned from public education to serve as a subject-matter expert in dyslexia for an educational technology company. During this time, I also collaborated with the Texas Education Agency as part of a team responsible for delivering virtual teacher training in a state-approved dyslexia curriculum.
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92% of Middle Schoolers Fail Timed Reading Test
More than 9 out of 10 elementary and middle school students fail to properly read school textbook content, according to a study. It was also confirmed that students addicted to smartphones and short-form videos (short videos) tend to have lower vocabulary skills.
This newspaper obtained and analyzed a literacy test report conducted by the Chungnam Office of Education in 2024 through the office of Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Jin Sun-mi. The results showed that 98% of elementary students and 92% of middle school students failed to finish reading given textbook passages within the allotted time. The test, conducted with the Dyslexia and Literacy Research Institute, involved 145 middle school students (grades 1–3) and 97 third-grade elementary students.
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Reading-specific region differs in the dyslexic brain, Stanford-led study finds
Normally, as kids learn to read, the visual word form area develops within the visual cortex, a large region of the brain’s “gray matter” located at the back of the head. The VWFA is a small part of the left side of the brain — ranging from pea-sized to about the size of a dime — that lights up on functional magnetic resonance imaging scans of the brain while people are reading. It has two subregions, one that responds to the shapes of words, and another that also responds to their meanings
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