IDA Fact Sheets
Convenient, professionally reviewed materials designed to help improve understanding and support advocacy initiatives.
General information
- Definition Of Dyslexia
- Dyslexia Basics
- Dyslexia and the Brain
- Helpful Terminology
- Understanding Your Dyslexia
Assessment
- Is My Child Dyslexic?
- Dyslexia assessment **NEW**
- Testing and Evaluation
- Universal Screening **NEW**
- Gifted and Dyslexic: Identifying and Instructing the Twice Exceptional Student
What works - Structured Literacy Instruction
- Multisensory Structured Language Teaching
- A Parent's Guide to Effective Instruction
- Orton-Gillingham-Based And/Or Multisensory Structured Language Approaches
- Spelling
- Gifted and Dyslexic: Identifying and Instructing the Twice Exceptional Student
- Evaluating Educational Professionals
- When Educational Promises Are Too Good to Be True
Emotional issues
Schooling
- Managing Your Child’s Education: Creative And Smart Ideas
- Accommodating Students With Dyslexia In All Classroom Settings
- Why Homeschool a Student with Dyslexia?
- At Risk Students and the Study of Foreign Language in School
- Transitioning from High School to College
Adolescents and Adults
- Information And Resources For Adolescents And Adults With Dyslexia — It's Never Too Late
- Transitioning from High School to College
Other conditions
Recommended Readings
- Recommended Reading for Children and Teens
- Recommended Reading For Parents
- Recommended Reading for Professionals