In my work supporting middle schools in implementing effective Mult-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), it’s not unusual for the team meetings that I sit in on to become tense. Administrators arrive ...

Son of Nobody—Yann Martel’s fifth book of fiction—features Harlow Donne, a classicist who leaves his daughter, Helen, in Canada and travels to Oxford, disappearing into the Bodleian Library, where he ...

The tide has turned on reading instruction. Nearly all states have passed “science of reading” laws, and most researchers and educators now agree students need to learn letters and sounds explicitly ...

A student must be able to decode before they can truly build reading fluency or comprehension. That’s not a preference. It’s how reading works. Yet in IEP meetings, I often see teams rush toward ...

Sentence production is the uniquely human ability to transform complex thoughts into strings of words. Despite the importance of this process, language production research has primarily focused on ...

This article provides an overview of the use of pseudowords—letter strings that resemble real words by adhering to phonotactic and orthotactic rules (e. g., fambo follows the rules of English ...

Diaeresis, also spelled diaresis, is a type of diacritical mark. Diacritical marks are glyphs that are added to a letter. Diaeresis looks like two side-by-side dots above a letter (¨). The purpose of ...

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Literacy lessons are embedded in every academic class. Even in biology. By Sarah Mervosh MEMPHIS — For much of his life, Roderick, a high school junior, did not enjoy reading. As a boy, he trudged ...

Reconstructing intended speech from neural activity using brain-computer interfaces holds great promises for people with severe speech production deficits. While decoding overt speech has progressed, ...

Speaking is a sensorimotor behavior whose neural basis is difficult to study with single neuron resolution due to the scarcity of human intracortical measurements. We used electrode arrays to record ...