Daily Inspiration: Meet Aimee Rodenroth

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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

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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

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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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Can Giftedness Mask Dyslexia?

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When we talk about dyslexia, many people think of difficulties with reading and writing. But what happens when students have both dyslexia and giftedness? These students may perform well on standardised reading comprehension tests when comprehension is assessed through multiple-choice questions. In this way, the decoding problems typical of dyslexia are not detected. This may mean that the difficulties remain invisible to teachers, students and parents.

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AI Can Help Solve the Reading Achievement Gap

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  • The reading achievement gap is actually an opportunity gap that AI can close.
  • Custom-built AI can ensure objectivity that learners value in evaluation and intervention.
  • Economical, scalable AI removes the dependency between expensive resources and student performance.
  • AI enables the individualization of general and special education.

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How to try ‘immersive reading’

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Until recently I believed that the three greatest contributions audiobooks have made to civilization were providing access to books to the sight-impaired, reducing the tedium of mindless drudgery and providing another level of interpretation and richness through the voices of gifted narrators. Further, audiobooks can add a new dimension to reading. Many people listen to a book while reading it at the same time, a practice known as “immersive reading.” The term began to take off in the late 1990s, rising steeply in the new century, which was, as it happens, when audiobooks began their own momentous ascent.

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