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Dr. Nadine Gaab Profile picture
@GaabLab
Oct 10, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Myth10 for #DyslexiaAwarenessMonth: "All individuals with #dyslexia share a similar strength & weakness profile!" NOT TRUE! Every person with #dyslexia is unique & has their own individual strengths & weaknesses. It's important to provide role models that showcase this variety1/4
Falsely promoting a certain strength that ALL individuals with #dyslexia share (e.g. visual-spatial skills or thinking out of the box) is not empowering and simply incorrect. It can lead to disappointment and more frustration such as "I am not even good at being 'dyslexic'" 2/4
Providing role models that are super successful can motivate some children with #dyslexia but others may get even more overwhelmed and experience more pressure to fit a certain mold. Instead, let's point out a variety of role models with #dyslexia in the child's own community 3/4
Let's find every child's own strength & foster it so they can reach their OWN full potential. Also, not all children with #dyslexia have the same profiles! Its a continuum & research points to a multiple deficit model (Pennington, 2006) with variety of risk & protective factors

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Dr. Nadine Gaab Profile picture
Oct 2, 2020
Here is Myth #2 for #DyslexiaAwarnessMonth 2020:
FIRST SIGNS OF #DYSLEXIA OR #READING IMPAIRMENTS CAN ONLY BE SEEN AFTER 2-3 YEARS OF READING INSTRUCTION. Nope. Early signs can be seen as early as preschool. Here is what to look for:
Numerous studies have shown that these skills are predictive of successful #reading acquisition as early as age 4 or 5:
Phonological awareness
Pseudoword repetition
Rapid Automatized Naming
Expressive/Receptive vocabulary
Letter (sound) knowledge
Oral listening comprehension
4 follow-up readings pl look at our review paper w @olaozpa bit.ly/34jtNLd & the wonderful work of many global researchers eg @CattsHugh @yaacovp @lervag M Snowling, C Hulme, @schotz @tiffanyphogan @deevybee @TheDrPT J Malatesha, H Lyytinen, G. Schulte-Körne, & many more
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Oct 1, 2020
We are back for #DyslexiaAwarenessMonth 2020 after all the wonderful feedback we received last year! Every Day we will bust another #dyslexia and #reading myth during the month of October:
MYTH #1 for 2020:
DYSLEXIA AND READING IMPAIRMENTS ARE RARE
While the exact prevalence of #dyslexia/#reading impairments depends on many factors (e.g., the definition, the spoken and written language, diagnostic practices), we can say with great certainty that dyslexia/reading impairments are not rare.
Let's take a look at the numbers: The National Assessment of Educational Progress shows in their report that approx. 65% of 4th graders are not #reading proficiently and the numbers are similar for students in 8th grade. You can find the 2019 report here
nationsreportcard.gov/reading?grade=4
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Jul 23, 2020
Very honored that our #dyslexia & early #literacy milestone #screening platform @EarlyBirdLearn developed in collaboration with @yaacovp is a finalist for the New England Innovation Award 2020!!! Fingers crossed! 🤩
Meet all the #2020 #NEInno #Finalist businesswire.com/news/home/2020…
Thank you @BostonChildrensfor all your support during the development of this! We could not have done this without your Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator!!! #grateful
Thank you @ne_inno for believing in us! #NEInnovation #NEInno
@BCH_Innovation
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Jun 13, 2020
Interested in doing/analyzing #neuroimaging studies in #infants or young #children? New pre-print by @GaabLab led by the wonderful @TedTuresky:
#Neuroimaging the rapidly developing #brain: Current challenges for #MRI studies in the first five years of life
osf.io/7q4cm/
Rapid and widespread changes in #brain anatomy and physiology in the first five years of life present substantial challenges for developmental #MRI studies. One persistent challenge is that methods best suited to earlier developmental stages are suboptimal for later stages
This new review describes the data acquisition, processing, & analysis challenges that introduce these potential biases when conducting & analyzing data from infants and young children & attempts to elucidate decisions & recommendations that can optimize developmental comparisons
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Mar 15, 2020
Kid 3 opened up a #coronavirus clinic for stuffed animals in our house in the Boston area in case you have a ‘patient’ in your house
#coping #resilience #pretendplay Image
Oh, and we do #telehealth I just learned
#SocialDistancing Image
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Jan 11, 2020
Many school districts are deciding to use 'survey' or 'questionnaire' #screeners (asking teachers a series of questions) for assessing #dyslexia risk instead of directly assessing the child. It's very problematic for various reasons & can harm our #dyslexia advocacy efforts1/6
1) Several research studies have shown that teacher surveys are poorly correlated with the actual performance of a child, especially at the beginning of K (or any grade since teachers are still getting to know the student). It' important to DIRECTLY assess the child's skills 2/6
For example, this study bit.ly/36Gve6e: shows "..teachers’ judgments of students’ early #literacy skills alone may be insufficient to accurately identify students at risk for #reading difficulties. So, why are we still using these? 3/6
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