In most faculty jobs, the department or college asks you to stop and document what you’ve been up to for the past year. In this episode, Jess and Sara talk about the institution’s goals for this annual review.
Rachelle does work on dyslexia outside her classwork and research at FCRR. Being dyslexic herself, Rachelle uses her story to advocate for change. Here Rachelle has written a Department of Education blog on disability identity.
In this article, Dr. Hugh Catts discusses the problems associated with high stakes reading tests and offer suggestions for alternative approaches to evaluating academic success in the early school grades.
Drs. Hugh Catts and Tiffany Hogan argue for an alternative, prevention-based approach that focuses on the early identification of children at risk for dyslexia and the provision of instruction/intervention that is matched to their needs.