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For Parents
Washington Dyslexia Resource Guide
IDA Dyslexia Handbook: What Every Family Should Know
International Dyslexia Association
Dyslexia Help at the University of Michigan
Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
Reading Rockets Top 10 Resources on Dyslexia
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Washington State Branch of the IDA
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.).
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