Eye-tracking research reveals that children are likely to read new words faster and easier if they have heard the words before.
- Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
A focus on phonics may be the cure to Australia’s literacy woes.
In their recently published book, The Dyslexia Debate, Joe Elliott and Elena Grigorenko controversially call for the term “dyslexia” to be abandoned. They argue it is an imprecise label that does nothing…
Action-packed videogames might help dyslexic adults learn to read, according to a study published today. Dyslexia is a reading disability that occurs when the brain does not properly recognise and process…
The Catholic Education Office in Sydney has announced that from 2013 it will trial the controversial Arrowsmith Program for children with learning difficulties. Arrowsmith is one of a number of “brain-training…
The latest NAPLAN results have arrived, and soon enough thousands of Australian parents will tear open the envelope containing their child’s NAPLAN results. They will be faced with a series of graphs that…
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