FOR PARENTS

Learn more about the importance of early intervention AND identification for students at-risk for dyslexia:

Act Early, from the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity https://dyslexia.yale.edu/resources/parents/what-parents-can-do/suspect-dyslexia-act-early/

Matthews Effect: https://www.nifdi.org/news-latest-2/blog-hempenstall/399-what-are-these-matthew-effects

Third Grade Wall: https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/dyslexia-and-the-3rd-grade-wall/

Washington State’s Literacy Screening and Intervention Law: https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=28A.320.260

Outcomes better when delivered in first and second grade: https://improvingliteracy.org/ask-an-expert/why-early-intervention-so-important-kids-dyslexia

IDA FAQs: https://dyslexiaida.org/frequently-asked-questions-2/

IDA Fact Sheet on Universal Screening: https://dyslexiaida.org/universal-screening-k-2-reading/

How instruction changes brain circuitry with struggling readers: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180614213556.htm

Family History, Genetics, and Dyslexia

• IDA Fact Sheet on K-2 Universal Screening https://dyslexiaida.org/universal-screening-k-2-reading/

• Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Gaab Lab, Dyslexia Myths https://www.gaablab.com/dyslexia-myths

• It’s a Myth That Young Children Cannot Be Screened for Dyslexia! https://dyslexiaida.org/its-a-myth-that-young-children-cannot-be-screened-for-dyslexia/

• Is Dyslexia Genetic? https://www.understood.org/articles/en/is-dyslexia-genetic

• Dyslexia and the Brain https://dyslexiaida.org/dyslexia-and-the-brain/

• Ask a Geneticist https://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/dyslexia-genetic

• Is Dyslexia Genetic? https://news.yale.edu/2013/06/12/yale-researchers-unravel-genetics-dyslexia-and-language-impairment

• Reading Difficulties and Family History https://www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-difficulties-and-family-history

• Genetics of Dyslexia https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2597981/

• Studies about genetics and dyslexia: (Fischer and Francks 2006; Lyytinen and Ahonen 2004), (Wolff & Melngalailis, 1994), (Snow, Burns, and Griffin 1998), (Snowling and Melby-Lervåg 2016), (Scarborough 1989), (Paradis, Emmerzael, and Duncan 2010), and (Kalashnikova, M., Goswami, U., & Burnham, D.).

Decoding Dyslexia WA does not endorse, represent, or have a legal connection with these resources. They are resources are included to be helpful to those seeking more information.

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