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 ...

An affordable screening assessment for dyslexia has been launched for parents amid growing criticism that standard testing is too expensive and takes too long for families. The ground-breaking tool, ...

After a decade-long push from reading advocates, California schools are on the verge of requiring every student in kindergarten through second grade to get a quick screening test to detect challenges ...

Is your child struggling to read? Is it affecting self-esteem? Dyslexia is a language-based disability with early signs that can be detected, and it's under-identified in many schools. It's also very ...

As Illinois rolls out a new law requiring early literacy screenings beginning Jan. 1, some educators question whether it will ...

A bill mandating universal screenings for dyslexia won easy passage in the state Legislature after many parents testified it was essential that Georgia work harder and sooner to identify students with ...

This year, for the first time, California schools will be screening kindergarteners, first- and second-graders for reading difficulties, including dyslexia, under a state mandate signed into law by ...

Sally Shaywitz is a force of nature who has forgotten more about dyslexia than most people will ever know. October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. I’ve been “aware” of the subject for two decades. I got ...

The largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) to date identified 42 independent locations in the genome associated with dyslexia. The study, conducted by scientists at the University of Edinburgh, ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story misstated Devin Kearn’s university affiliation. A recent change to the definition of dyslexia put forth by an international group of researchers and ...