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Executive Function: What Smart People Do Differently While Learning [Premium]

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...

The Moral Harm of Dyslexia Unawareness

by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Being Dyslexic, Premium, Premium Content, Social and Emotional

Primum non nocere. – Latin Saying (First, do no harm) The Latin Saying Primum non-nocere may not have originated with Hippocrates, however the advice is also like a laser beam focused on the greatest harm that comes from dyslexia unawareness. A few days ago, a...

Breaking Research : Dyslexia in Adolescents and Adults [Premium]

by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Assessment, Being Dyslexic, Dyslexic Advantages, Education, N Strengths, Premium, Premium Content, Professionals, Psychology, Reading, Stealth Dyslexia

An important paper was published this month from the University of Washington, entitled “Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Assessment for Dyslexia in Adolescents and Young Adults.” The paper is especially important guiding testing professionals who assess teens and...

Dyslexia and Accommodations – ADA Guidelines for School and Work

by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Advocacy, Being Dyslexic, College, Stealth Dyslexia

The US Department of Justice just released final regulations regarding the implementation of the American for Disabilities Act. “These rules clarify and refine issues that have arisen over the past 20 years and contain new and updated requirements.” Direct...

Could Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Affect IQ Scores? [Premium]

by Fernette Eide | | Dysgraphia, dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content

From our Community: Can Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Affect IQ Scores? My son got officially diagnosed with both dyslexia and dysgraphia this week. I suspected he would come back with the diagnosis. What surprised me a bit were his IQ scores. The scenario is a common one –...