Doing Your Homework: Research-Based Reading Instruction by Sue Heath

Doing Your Homework:
Research-Based Reading Instruction
by Suzanne Whitney, Research Editor, Wrightslaw

A lot of attention has been focused on research-based reading instruction recently.

Are there experts in this field?

Is there a way to find tutors for children with reading problems? Independent evaluators?

Is there an organization that can answer questions that educators, school board members, and parents have about effective reading instruction?

Yes to all.

The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) maintains a list of evaluators, tutors, and educational diagnosticians. You can request a copy of the list for your area by calling the International Dyslexia Association at 410-296-0232.

Individuals or organizations who wish to be added to International Dyslexia Association database of providers may submit an application to the International Dyslexia Association. Individual provider application

Directory of Accredited Training Courses and Trained Therapists

Teacher Training Centers and Programs

Reading Disabilities and Research-Based Reading Instruction

IDA Fact Sheets on Dyslexia and Related Language-Based Learning Differences

Dyslexia Basics

Testing for Dyslexia

Understanding Your Dyslexia

What Is Dyslexia

Multisensory Structured Language Approaches (Orton-Gillingham based)

Multisensory Teaching

Suggested Reading List for Professionals

International Dyslexia Association

Membership information

Download a membership application

Find local Branches of the IDA

IDA's Scientific Advisory Board

IDA Annual Conference

Modified 02/24/09

Meet Sue Whitney

Sue Whitney of Merrimack, New Hampshire, is the research editor for Wrightslaw.

Sue is the co-author of Wrightslaw: No Child Left Behind (ISBN: 978-1-892320-12-4) that is published by Harbor House Law Press.

In Doing Your Homework, she writes about reading, research based instruction, No Child Left Behind, and creative strategies for using federal education standards to advocate for children and to improve public schools. Her articles have been reprinted by SchwabLearning.org, EducationNews.org, Bridges4Kids.org, The Beacon: Journal of Special Education Law and Practice, the Schafer Autism Report, and have been used in CLE presentations to attorneys. Sue Whitney's bio.

Sue has served on New Hampshire's Special Education State Advisory Committee on the Education of Students/Children with Disabilities (SAC) and has been a volunteer educational surrogate parent. She currently works with families as a special education advocate.