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Does your child struggle with reading? If so, it can be hard to know if their struggles are part of normal learning and development or if they indicate a more serious reading disability like dyslexia. As the most common learning disorder, dyslexia affects anywhere from 5-12% of the population. And it’s also the most well-known: ...

Did you know that dyslexia affects 5-15% of all Americans? That’s somewhere between 14.5-43.5 million people in the U.S. alone. This common diagnosis is often thrown around in conversations among parents when kids reverse letters or struggle with reading, but do you really understand what it is? What Is Dyslexia Really? Dyslexia isn’t just letter ...

There is a lot of misunderstanding about the way individuals with dyslexia experience the world. Here are 6 mostly-unknown things that you may not have heard about this learning disability: Dyslexics don’t see letters backwards. Dyslexia isn’t a visual processing problem. Instead, it is an inability to connect letters to sounds to meaning in the ...

Dyslexia is a term that is thrown around frequently when kids are struggling to read. They switch b’s and d’s; they read a word backwards… Does it mean it’s dyslexia?!  Dyslexia is not actually reading letters backwards or seeing jumbled words on a page. It’s a specific learning disorder that impairs your ability to process ...

Seven hundred eighty million people globally may have some form of dyslexia. A number that large can feel overwhelming. Dyslexia Awareness month aims to highlight this disability because it affects more people than we know.  So let’s break down this significant statistic.  This number may play out in a classroom; out of thirty students, at ...

We’ve scoured Scholastic’s website to find some of their best book recommendations by age to help ensure your child is not only reading at the appropriate level, but also staying entertained enough to develop a love for books. 

Curious to learn more about common learning disabilities? Check out our latest blog post about three of the most common types of learning disabilities, including what parents should look for and how students tend to “work around” the problem before it’s identified and addressed.

“These labels do not define your loved one and LearningRx can help!” At LearningRx, we specialize in one-on-one cognitive training for all ages.  Although we do not diagnose, we work with many individuals who come to us with an existing diagnosis .  Our goal is to uncover the “learner beneath the label” as we leverage the principle ...

Reading fluency and reading comprehension difficulties are concerning given reading is the foundation to learning not just impacting language arts but subjects like math, science and social studies. When discussing a child’s reading difficulties with parents, I often get the question, “Does my child have dyslexia?”. It’s important to understand that dyslexia simply means that ...

ADHD/Dyslexia Month is here; and WDVM talks with LearningRx Reston LearningRx Tysons about how brain training can help with symptoms of ADHD and Dyslexia!