In support of Dyslexia Awareness Month in October, IDA held a nationwide awareness campaign and fundraising event to provide one dyslexia resource kit to every public elementary school in the United States. This awareness campaign, the first tackled by IDA of such magnitude, was in response to parents and educators looking for ways to collaborate. The kit, Dyslexia in the Classroom: What Every Teacher Needs to Know, will help raise awareness, share best practices, and be a resource to the school's administration and staff. In order to get these kits to every public elementary school principal in November, we requested your help and you really came through! More than 55,000 kits were sent in November! Read More.

IDA has embarked on a project that can transform the teaching of reading in America. There are far too few teachers qualified to teach children with dyslexia and the techniques that help children with dyslexia learn are exactly the methods that work best for all beginning readers. Yet, in the vast majority of classrooms in America, reading is being taught using methods that hundreds of trial studies have shown are exactly the wrong way to teach our children to read. In 2011, IDA accredited nine university programs using volunteer professionals to complete this work. This year, we are continuing this work at twelve additional universities. IDA professionals are evaluating curricula, teaching materials, and classroom content training teacher(s) who will teach reading, whether in the elementary classroom or in remedial settings. These accreditations will help bring these university programs in line with IDA's Knowledge and Practice Standards, an outline of scientifically proven methods for teaching all children, not just those with dyslexia. Read More.

When a young girl is 13 years old, her days typically are filled with laughter, friendship, and all things hot and trendy. Lindsay Leavitt added a personal goal to her journey into young adulthood--raising funds to support IDA and raising awareness of dyslexia. Lindsay has dyslexia and this is her story. Read More.