Further reading for Hard to Read

There are proven ways to help people with dyslexia learn to read, and a federal law that's supposed to ensure schools provide kids with help. But across the country, public schools are denying children proper treatment and often failing to identify them with dyslexia in the first place.

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• Denied: How Texas Keeps Tens of Thousands of Children Out of Special Education
  (Houston Chronicle, September 2016)

• Do Textbooks Used in University Reading Education Courses Conform to the Instructional Recommendations of the National Reading Panel?
  (Journal of Learning Disabilities, July 2009)

• Double Jeopardy: How Third Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation
  (Annie E. Casey Foundation, January 2012)

• Douglas Fuchs Talks about the "10 percent problem"
  (Science Watch, April 2011)

• The Dyslexia Dilemma: A History of Ignorance, Complacency and Resistance in Colleges of Education
  (Journal of Childhood and Developmental Disorders, August 2016)

• English Gets a Bad Rap!
  (Excerpted from Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS), Sopris West, 2009)

• Forty Years Later, IDEA Still Seeks Success for Students with Disabilities
  (American Institutes for Research, December 2015)

• Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade
  (What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences, April 2017)

• Handbook of Learning Disabilities
  (Guilford Press, Second Edition, 2013)

• IDA Dyslexia Handbook
  (The International Dyslexia Association, 2014)

• Incidence of Reading Disability in a Population-based Birth Cohort
  (Mayo Clinic Proceedings, November 2001)

• Landscapes in Teacher Prep: Undergraduate Elementary Ed
  (National Council on Teacher Quality, December 2016)

• Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It
  (Basic Books, 2017)

• Lighting the Way: The Reading Panel Report Ought to Guide Teacher Preparation
  (American Educator, Summer 2013)

• Minorities Are Disproportionately Underrepresented in Special Education: Longitudinal Evidence Across Five Disability Conditions
  (Educational Researcher, June 2015)

• National Assessment of Educational Progress, Grade 4 Reading
  (National Center for Education Statistics, 2015)

• (National Reading Panel Report) Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction
  (National Institutes of Health, April 2000)

• Opinion Analysis: Court's Decision Rejecting Low Bar for Students with Disabilities, Under the Spotlight
  (SCOTUS Blog, March 2017)

• Overcoming Dyslexia
  (Vintage Books, 2005)

• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of Reading and the Brain
  (Harper Collins, 2008)

• The Reading Glitch: How the Culture Wars Have Hijacked Reading Instruction--And What We Can Do about It
  (Rowman and Littlefield Education, 2006)

• The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads
  (Jossey-Bass, 2017)

• The Reading Wars
  (The Atlantic, November 1997)

• Research and the Reading Wars
  (book chapter in When Research Matters: How Scholarship Influences Education Policy, Harvard Education Press, 2008)

• Rethinking Learning Disabilities
  (Progressive Policy Institute and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, May 2001)

• Rethinking Special Education Due Process
  (AASA, April 2016)

• The Role of Neuroscience in the Remediation of Students with Dyslexia
  (Nature Neuroscience Supplement, October 2002)

• Schools Deny Dyslexia
  (Lexercise, October 2015)

• Special Education Law
  (Wrightslaw, Second Edition, 2007)

• The State of Learning Disabilities
  (National Center for Learning Disabilities, Third Edition, 2014)

• The State of Learning Disabilities: Understanding the 1 in 5
  (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2017)

• Study of Teacher Preparation in Early Reading Instruction
  (Institute of Education Sciences, September 2010)

• Study of Mississippi Teacher Preparation for Early Literacy Instruction
  (The Barksdale Reading Institute and The Institutions of Higher Learning, December 2015)

• Too Good to Last: The True Story of Reading First
  (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, March 2008)

• Uncoupling of Reading and IQ Over Time: Empirical Evidence for a Definition of Dyslexia
  (Psychological Science, 2010)

• Who is in Charge of Teacher Preparation?
  (Center for American Progress, June 2013)

• Whole Language: Beliefs and Practices
  (National Education Association, July 1989)

• Whole-Language High Jinks
  (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2007)

• Why Public Schools Struggle to Help Kids with Dyslexia
  (Lexercise, March 2014)

• Why Schools Don't Do Dyslexia Intervention
  (Lexercise, October 2016)

Organizations with more information about dyslexia

• Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators

• Decoding Dyslexia

• Florida Center for Reading Research

• Georgetown University Center for the Study of Learning

• Haskins Laboratories

• International Dyslexia Association

• Learning Disabilities Association of America

• Shanahan on Literacy

• UA KID

• Understood

• Wrightslaw

• Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity