SPM and SPM-2 Quick Tips Case Study: What’s Behind Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom?

Learn how to distinguish between developmental language disorder (DLD) and dyslexia—two lifelong conditions that impact reading, language, and academic success. Understanding their similarities and differences helps educators tailor effective interventions and support strategies.

Many children with dyslexia also struggle with auditory processing disorder (APD), which can affect phonological awareness and reading development. This blog explores why screening for APD during a dyslexia assessment can lead to more accurate diagnoses and targeted interventions.

New research explores the hidden link between childhood trauma and dyslexia, revealing how early stress may impact brain development and learning disabilities. Discover the science behind this connection and what it means for early intervention and support.

Discover how preschool teachers can build early literacy skills through phonological and print awareness strategies. This blog explores practical methods for fostering reading readiness, including assessments, sensory activities, and guidance on early dyslexia identification.

Understanding how executive dysfunction affects students with dyslexia can help you target instruction and interventions that will prove the most effective.  

Identifying dyslexia can be more complicated when other health or developmental conditions are also present. This article may help you map the shared territory, differentiating factors, and key questions to ask as you make your way through a comprehensive dyslexia evaluation.

Around the world, clinicians and educators identify dyslexia using widely varying methods, a recent international comparison shows (Sadusky et al., 2022). That diversity troubles some researchers. Without a consensus on how the condition is identified, are practitioners missing some diagnoses?

Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder that causes reading difficulties. Despite that simple definition, this developmental condition is heterogenous: It can look different from person to person. Given dyslexia’s variations, how can you ensure that an assessment will identify the condition in the particular student you’re evaluating? 

Thorough dyslexia evaluations are notoriously complex, largely because so many skills must meld to make a good reader, and because dyslexia can be caused by a variety of developmental differences (Sanfilippo et al., 2020).

Once a screener identifies an at-risk student, the hard work really begins. Here’s what studies show are some of the most common shortfalls educators experience when assessing for dyslexia.