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Covid school closures had severe, long-lasting educational consequences, especially for disadvantaged students. The longer schools were closed, the greater the learning loss. Students in countries with the shortest closures lost about 4–6 months of learning, while those in

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“William was able to get high scores on take-home assignments by using a combination of ChatGPT and Grammarly. He would then have a software program read to him out loud and would make changes if it ‘didn’t sound right.’”

Students graduate unable to functionally read and write from Ontario high schools too. #RightToRead

“Why Doesn’t Enjoyment Translate into Engagement? The answer may lie in the additional effort required to read. Reading is more cognitively demanding for individuals with dyslexia. Having to make that effort might reduce the pleasure they experience...” psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/when-w…

From the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s now 3-year old Right to Read Inquiry Report. Technology (AT, audiobooks) cannot replace public education providing evidence-aligned reading instruction & intervention.

Since many kids with dyslexia are bullied, Ontario Brock University research insight. “…bullying seems to be associated with some meaningful outcomes… “… bullies date more… attracting potential mates by publicly asserting their dominance…” brocku.ca/brock-news/202…

Also extremely common in dyslexics reading in English - some individuals appear to only have this challenge. They have intact hearing/understanding of small language sounds when heard but then cannot retain/recognize/accurately recall readily these sounds corresponded to print.

Did you listen to Sold a Story when it first came out? There were six episodes then. Did you know there are now 13? (plus 7 bonus episodes) The latest is out today. The List: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/13-…

Only 0.13% of papers in top 100 education journals were replications (far less than any other field of social research, which is already pretty bad for replications btw). This suggests to me that this isn't merely a general social science problem, but something more specific to

1 lived experience “I did not have a single condition as I was experiencing depression and substance-use challenges, and was dealing with being differently abled owing to dyslexia.” “There were aspects of diagnosis that also provided a sense of relief..” nature.com/articles/s4415…

Ontario students with special needs wait years to get help — and funding for them has worsened under Doug Ford, unions say #onpoli trib.al/oWoCTO1

Open Netherlands-Ontario research study; co-occurrence and causality ADHD-dyslexia-dyscalculia “We found high co-occurrence rates of ADHD, dyslexia, and dyscalculia...” “Children with dyslexia… were three times as likely to have dyscalculia…” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

🚫 Labeling students as “hands-on learners” (or any learning style) can limit how they're taught, what they believe they can do, and what they actually learn. @carlhendrick.substack.com highlights new research exposing the harm caused by the learning styles myth. Link below.

Small or absent VWFA is a trait of dyslexia " …while targeted interventions can drive functional changes in the dyslexic brain, some neurostructural differences may be inherently stable traits that require prolonged or more intensive interventions.” biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

From Spain, "Parental stress, quality of life, and behavioral alterations in children with dyslexia" “Caregivers of children with dyslexia exhibited significantly higher levels of stress (p < .001) across all evaluated dimensions...” sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New book "The Impact of Multisensory Foreign Language Instruction on Self-efficacy in Students with Developmental Dyslexia" could benefit from a book review. link.springer.com/book/978303188… Its subject seems to align with decades-old global research including erudit.org/en/journals/cj…

Canadian comedian Phil Hanley, who is severely dyslexic, spoke with CBC The Current's Matt Galloway for 1 hour on May 12. The segment includes memories of attending K to 12 public education in Oshawa, Ontario. Segment’s online cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Canadian comedian Phil Hanley. Adults and kids with dyslexia may relate. youtube.com/watch?v=GdZ_za…