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What is Decoding Dyslexia? A parent led network.

February 6, 2017
Decoding Dyslexia is a network of parent-led grassroots movements across the country concerned with the limited access to educational interventions for dyslexia within the public education system.  We aim to raise dyslexia awareness, empower families to support their children and inform...

Downtown center focuses on child development

January 27, 2017
Downtown Center Focuses on Child Development Parents, caregivers and community members in the Merced area have a new resource for information about childhood development and disorders. The UC Merced Alliance for Child and Family Health and Development, in downtown Merced, is a place where people...

Be Healthy Today; Be Healthy For Life! Information for Youth and their Families Living with Type 2 Diabetes

August 18, 2016
Children and Type 2 Diabetes The number of teens living with type 2 diabetes has increased in recent years.  Managing diabetes as a teen or adolescent can come with different challenges than an adult may face.  Be Healthy Today; Be Healthy for Life is filled with information for...

ScienceDaily Research News; "Traumatic experiences during early childhood linked to poor academic performance, behavior problems in kindergarten."

January 14, 2016
  Summary: Adverse experiences in early childhood, including incarceration of a parent, and physical and psychological abuse, impede on learning and behavior development as early as kindergarten, according to a study. The evidence adds to data indicating that maltreatment and dysfunction...

"Why Study Dynamic Visual-Spatial Thinking in Dyslexia? Q & A with Jeffrey Gilger"

October 20, 2014
Summary:   Long-standing speculations and questions about a possible dyslexia-talent relationship, particularly in nonverbal-spatial domains, have piqued interest for decades,  The questions have remained largely unanswered, a least scientifically, ever since dyslexia was described in...

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