by Fernette Eide | | Brain, Premium, Premium Content, Research
Recently there has been a flurry of papers in the popular press based on a research study that undertook a whole-brain analysis of connectivity in the brains of dyslexic children and adults and non-dyslexic subjects as a control. Whole-brain studies are of course...
by Fernette Eide | | Art, Brain, creativity, Dyslexic Advantages, Premium, Premium Content, Research
BBC Science: “…artists had increased neural matter in areas relating to fine motor movements and visual imagery. The research, published in NeuroImage, suggests that an artist’s talent could be innate…these detailed scans revealed that the artist group had...
by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Education, Learning, Memory, Premium, Premium Content, Social and Emotional, Teachers, Testing
When researchers compared high IQ and average test subjects in a learning paradigm, the results were surprising. In some areas high IQ individuals work less, as might be expected by the idea that higher IQ people have more efficient brains for learning tasks, but in...
by Fernette Eide | | Advocacy, Assessment, Dyslexia Laws, Parents, Professionals, Psychology, RTI, School, Teachers
RTI or Response To Intervention is currently the dominant approach to reading instruction in public schools across the United States (over 70% of school districts), but in a just-released progress report funded by the Department of Education from the Institute of...
by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Advocacy, Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content, Research, Stealth Dyslexia, Writing
It can be maddening. You look and look you just don’t see it. Later you pass your work along, you see all the thing you hadn’t seen the first time round. What’s going on ? You’ve experienced a ‘trick’ of perception. In our clinic,...