Center Research in Progress

• Through a grant from the Division of Special Education of the Tennessee State Department of Education, three public schools are participating in a study to determine the effects of an intervention program on the reading performance of students receiving special education services.
  
  

Past Center Research

• An investigation of an "Early Signs" checklists, for parents, to target children (ages 5-8) who may be at-risk of failure in reading and spelling (may be dyslexic).
• An investigation of speech discrimination errors among students with dyslexia with and without histories of multiple middle-ear infections.
• An investigation of a three-minute task to screen for potentially dyslexic readers (grades 2-8)
• A search for the gene(s) associated with dyslexia in one large family.