Families often ask us whether their struggling readers should get tutoring concurrently with our Dysolve AI intervention. Reading difficulties that are neurologically based are called dyslexia. Dyslexia is due to language processing issues in the brain and is very common, affecting 1 in 5 people.The type of tutoring for dyslexia is usually Orton-Gillingham. For families, […]

What happens when 40% of a generation cannot function at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0-6 years old during COVID-19, now in grades K-6.While some children were buffered by extra supports at home, large swaths of the population were not so fortunate. A 2021-2022 national report found […]

Despite affecting 1 in 5 people, dyslexia generally remains a confusing condition for those who have it and those who support them. In my role as a clinical linguist, when I asked parents why they did not act earlier on their children’s dyslexia, they often said that they did not even know where to start, […]

Can Dyslexia be Corrected? Background Last month, an education publication ran an article with the title: What Educators Need to Know about Dyslexia – and Why It’s Not Something to ‘Fix.’ It reiterates an old assumption about this neurological condition that no longer holds, thanks to technological advances. Old approach to treating Dyslexia: Dyslexia interventionists […]

Now that assistive technologies can read texts out loud, correct misspellings and compose essays for us, do we still need intervention for dyslexia, a reading difficulty? The answer is yes. The problem with dyslexia does not go away simply because the individual affected does not need to read. Their reading difficulty is just an overt […]

Despite today’s rapid growth of scientific and technological knowledge, truly innovative activity is actually declining. Here, we distinguish between innovations that augment existing streams of knowledge v. innovations that disrupt them. The latter renders the old obsolete and propel science and technology forward in unexpected, new directions. We need disruptive innovations. Humankind faces huge challenges […]

Findings about the brain for the educator For the past 100 years, dyslexia was a murky, confounding disorder of the brain. For the one in five people who has it, dyslexia remained chronic and lifelong, impacting learning and reading. There was no way to peer into a dyslexic brain to see underlying problems precisely enough […]