– First Tool of its Kind Available to Parents Searching for a Proper Diagnosis and Treatment Plan – SAN FRANCISCO (April 6, 2011) – Lexercise, a company that provides professionally-managed, online dyslexia treatment, today introduced a free online test, The Lexercise Screener, that allows parents or clinicians to screen children ages six and up for [...]

San Francisco, California – 24 May 2010 – Lexercise.com, a Web‐based language learning tool, has entered its public beta with an invitation‐only phase targeted to licensed clinicians. Designed to provide clinician‐supervised daily practice to children ages 5 and up with dyslexia and other speech‐language disorders, Lexercise uses Flash‐animated games to teach core skills for reading, [...]

Peter Entwistle, PhD will join us to discuss how CogMed improves working memory for better focus and attention. Dr. Entwistle is a Cogmed Consultant for Pearson. He is a psychologist and has worked for a number of entities including: The Psychological Corporation, University of Massachusetts-Boston Department of Counseling & School Psychology, Braintree Hospital and Scituate [...]

Peter Bowers of WordWorks Kingston will model and discuss an instructional approach called “structured word inquiry” that uses the linguistic tools of the word sum and the matrix to make sense of the spelling-meaning structure of words. Peter Bowers is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He [...]

Miki (Michal) Feldman-Simon, Vice President, U.S. Operations, Ginger Software Inc., will speak with us how struggling writers can use GingerSoftware. Miki has varied experience in education, entrepreneurship, and organization management and has lectured on these topics worldwide. Miki has worked with children as young as kindergarten to adults in various educational programs in Israel, Australia [...]