In a world where reading is often taken for granted, there exists an invisible enemy that is often overlooked among the dyslexic community — adult illiteracy. Dyslexia is a learning disorder that ...

Dyslexia Awareness Week is an annual event aimed at raising public awareness of dyslexia. This year’s event, which runs from Monday 4 October to Sunday 10 October, is focused on “invisible dyslexia”, ...

Needy minority students are less likely to be identified as having the reading disability dyslexia than other students, a recent study concludes. Such students, absent critical reading intervention in ...

New study seeks to define the social costs of dyslexia Imagine a 5-year-old boy in elementary school is one of the 10-20 percent of children who has dyslexia, but he is never diagnosed. His reading ...

Poor children in the United States are less likely to be identified as dyslexic at an early age and get the help they need to overcome their reading difficulties than children in middle-class families ...

As an only child, Cathy Drennan gravitated toward grown-ups, especially smart ones. "I was kind of an intellectual, geeky kid," she laughed. "I'd go to a dinner party and there was a kids' table and ...

Yvonne Yancy is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Understood, the only lifelong guide for those with learning and thinking differences. Companies across the U.S. have been grappling with their ...

An increasing amount of attention is being paid to dyslexia and autism. These neurodevelopmental disorders affect a large number of children, to the point where they have become household names for ...