Videos

Explicit instruction expert Dr. Anita Archer provides the rationale and overview of explicit instruction and its benefit to students.

In this video from Understood, Guinevere Eden, PhD, explains which parts of our brain we use when we read, how our brains change when we learn to read, and the difference that a successful dyslexia intervention can make in brain function.

Dr. Cooper-Kahn discusses executive functioning in children with autism.

Governments, educators, families and public health officials face mounting challenges in dealing with autism as the prevalence in the U.S. continues to grow. In the concluding segment in his Autism Now series, Robert MacNeil explores these issues and possible solutions in a roundtable with four autism researchers and advocates. 

In this webinar, AT Specialists Diana Petschauer and Kelsey Hall Dyslexia demonstrated AT tools to support students who experience dyslexia with regard to developing goals and choosing appropriate accommodations as part of student’s’ individualized education plans (IEPs); and discussed interventions designed to close achievement gaps by providing well-researched programming that is explicit, systematic, and multisensory in nature, with plenty of opportunities for practice.

Reading expert Linda Farrell works with Reese to master the name of every letter.

Learn about the Simple View of Reading in this interview with reading expert Linda Farrell.

An after-school program called RAVE-O helps to teach reading fluency in Malden, Massachusetts.

Linda Farrell discusses the challenge of introducing reading intervention programs to schools resistant to change.

The Lab School in Washington, D.C. shows how one-on-one tutoring helps struggling readers achieve phonemic awareness.