Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. The Santa Barbara Public Library (SBPL) will host a three-session tutor training in October as part of the SBPL OG Readers ...

Many schools and districts face the challenge of supporting large numbers of students who need reading intervention but lack enough resources to meet their needs. How can districts scale ...

On a chilly morning at Leonard Flynn Elementary School, first graders played with jump ropes and hula hoops outside while reading tutor Lillie Reynaga set up her materials at a table in the hallway ...

Brooke Tepper, a special education resource teacher at Columbus School in Carteret, N.J., works on reading fluency with first graders, giving them parts to read aloud in a short play. Credit: Caralee ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A literacy intervention program meant to help first-grade students learn how to read has drawn the attention of one Kentucky lawmaker who questions its effectiveness. Schools ...

A major research project set to kick off next year will compare the effectiveness of remedial programs for struggling readers in the 3rd and 5th grades. The privately financed study, unveiled here ...

Ten weeks of intensive reading intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder was enough to strengthen the activity of loosely connected areas of their brains that work together to comprehend ...

Source: AdobeStock Whether a family member has a reading difficulty or not, this problem still impacts you. Our tax money funds interventions for reading difficulty, also called dyslexia, the biggest ...

If North Carolina public schools want to improve third-graders' reading skills, they need to expand reading intervention efforts to earlier grades, possibly as early as pre-kindergarten, researchers ...

The Santa Barbara Public Library will host a three-session tutor training in April and May to continue to support struggling students through the SBPL OG Readers Tutoring Program. Join library staff ...