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Mother Helps Sons Overcome Learning Disabilities

Link: Full Story  Kimberly Goss taught her sons how to crawl their way to success -- literally. Benjamin Goss, 26, and Christopher Goss, 23, suffer from learning disabilities. When the two were children, Kimberly and her husband, Bill, took them to be tested at an area learning center and were told that neither boy would ever develop the intellectual capacity to attend college. Refusing to accept that assessment, Kimberly took her sons out of public school, where they were in special education classes, and taught them at home. "What I did was pull them out of a situation that was damaging to their self-esteem," Kimberly said. "We did a lot of praying, let them know they were smart and just believed in them." Ben suffers from dyslexia and an auditory processing affliction that inhibits his ability to recall instructions. Christopher has dyslexia and dysgraphia, which is a deficiency in his ability to write. Ben and Christopher credit their mother for putting them on a path to academic excellence.

Nemours aims to give dyslexic preschoolers a bright start

Link: Dyslexia Preschool
Nemours Children's Clinic Orlando is unveiling a pilot program aimed at helping preschoolers in Orlando with dyslexia and other reading disabilities -- before they head to elementary school.

Dynamic Dyslexia Design School thrills parents, kids

Link: School for Dyslexia
Kelly Graves cried when her son, John David, came home from school and read her a short story. It wasn't, however, a public school education that provided him with the ability to comprehend the letters and words on the pages, but rather a new school designed especially for first through third grade students with dyslexia.

Unraveling 'Math Dyslexia'

Link: Math Dyslexia
Although school has been back for less than a month, it is likely that many children are already experiencing frustration and confusion in math class. Research at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada could change the way we view math difficulties and how we assist children who face those problems.

Accomplishing Big Things in Small Pieces

Link: William Wissemann
Solving the Rubik’s Cube has made me believe that sometimes you have to take a few steps back to move forward. This was a mirror of my own life when I had to leave public school after the fourth grade. It’s embarrassing to admit, but I still couldn’t consistently spell my full name correctly.

Dyslexia no barrier to U-M grad's 11 degrees

Link: Dyslexia

Such achievements could be considered incredible for any scholar, but Bolger's story has an additional twist: He struggles with dyslexia and reads at a fifth-grade level.

Bellingham educator uses clay to help people conquer dyslexia

Link: Clay
Marlene Easley uses the three-dimensional nature of clay to help break through the barriers to learning that are created by dyslexia.

Intensive Remediation Permanently Rewires Children's Brains

Link: Remediation

Just 100 hours of intensive remediation can reshape the brains of children with dyslexia and other reading difficulties, according to a new study published in the August issue of the journal Neuropsychologia. The changes seem to be permanent: the differences between strong readers and struggling ones had nearly vanished a year after the remediation, the study found.

Dyscalculia More Than a Figure of Speech When Numbers Don't Add Up

Link: Dyscalculia

At its most basic level, dyscalculia affects the very building blocks of calculations, going right back to number recognition and the ability to count and recognize place value in our decimal system. Research suggests that perhaps 5 percent of the population could suffer from it.

MRI Suggests Link Between Disordered Nerves, Dyslexia

Link: MRI

U.S. researchers, using diffusion sensor imaging, identified a disorganized pattern of white matter nerve fiber connections in the brains of people with dyslexia caused by periventricular nodular heterotopia. The study showed patients with more disordered nerves experienced less fluent or smooth reading.