Category: Dyslexia
Educator Resources for Dyslexia Awareness Month
October 21, 2020
Gander Publishing strives to be at the forefront of dyslexia awareness by offering proven interventions for students, partnering with top researchers, and working with educators around the world. As new research and practices emerge, we continue to offer resources that make a difference. Structured Literacy: How do our programs help students with dyslexia? Our […]
Upcoming Conference Presentations
January 30, 2020
Results of our research-validated programs will be shared as part of Lindamood-Bell presentations at these upcoming conferences. 47th Annual Conference on Dyslexia and Related Learning Disabilities Date: February 3-4, 2020 Location: New York, NY Title of Presentation: “A Picture of Success: Teaching All Children to Read and Comprehend” 57th Annual International Conference. This year’s […]
How One District is Comprehensively Increasing Reading Achievement for Students with Dyslexia
July 17, 2019
Fort Smith Public School District, in Arkansas, turned a state dyslexia mandate into an opportunity to fundamentally restructure how reading instruction was provided across their entire district. In 2017, school leaders began a partnership with Lindamood-Bell to address the needs of struggling readers and students with dyslexia and to provide a solid foundation for all […]
Fort Smith Students Make Gains with Seeing Stars® Instruction
August 28, 2018
Fort Smith School District in Arkansas is seeing promising results from its partnership with Lindamood-Bell during the 2017-18 school year. The partnership was initiated to address the needs of struggling readers including those with dyslexia. In an intensive intervention focused on the needs of students previously diagnosed with dyslexia, students receiving Seeing Stars® instruction made […]
New Dyslexia Research on Seeing Stars Intervention Published in Nature Communications
July 3, 2018
Exciting new dyslexia research, titled “Rapid and Widespread White Matter Plasticity During an Intensive Reading Intervention,” was published this month in the scientific journal Nature Communications. The study, from the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at University of Washington (UW), examined growth in reading skills and white matter in school-aged, struggling readers. Diffusion MRI […]
Discovering How Reading Intervention Changes the Brains of Children With Dyslexia
September 29, 2017
University of Washington researchers are studying the effects of the Seeing Stars® program.
Researchers from the University of Washington are in the midst of a study using the Seeing Stars® intervention to better understand the underlying mechanisms of dyslexia. Typical interventions for dyslexics involve strategies to help struggling readers compensate. And while there are many programs and strategies that improve specific reading skills, such as phonemic awareness and […]
MIT Study Shows Benefit of Seeing Stars® Instruction
September 13, 2017
A recent study conducted at MIT shows the benefits of Seeing Stars instruction.
A recent study by the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) utilized the Seeing Stars® program to test the efficacy of reading intervention with young children who have reading disabilities and difficulties. Brain regions grew significantly thicker in children whose reading scores improved after Seeing Stars instruction. […]
Closing the Achievement Gap in Canon City Schools
August 24, 2017
One year into implementing an Early Literacy Grant, Canon City School District in Colorado is seeing significant growth for some of its lowest performing students. More importantly, by targeting students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade, they are closing the achievement gap early on. The district is implementing the Seeing Stars® and Visualizing and Verbalizing® (V/V®) […]
Teachers in Jamaica Are Taking Instruction to the Next Level
August 16, 2017
A teacher helps students connect imagery and language with the Visualizing and Verbalizing Program.
After attending introductory workshops this past spring, teachers in Jamaica are now engaged in language and literacy instruction. Educators trained in the Seeing Stars (for Reading and Spelling) and Visualizing and Verbalizing programs (for Language Comprehension and Thinking) are putting their new skills to use at an onsite summer reading clinic for students with special […]
3 Tips for Developing Sight Word Vocabulary
May 15, 2017
Nanci Bell working with a student on sight words.
The complex skill of reading requires the integration of auditory, visual, and language skills. Word recognition (orthographic processing and instant recognition of sight words) is a necessary component in the cascade of sub-skills needed for global reading. Students need extensive practice to acquire a substantial sight word vocabulary (words that are recognized by sight, […]
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