Best Practices in Instructional Design & Use of Learning Technologies

"When parents and teachers consider how children learn, it’s usually the intellectual aspects of the activity they have in mind." This article discusses "the role of feelings in learning" and states "that complex learning is almost inevitably  'an emotionally charged experience.'" 

It also turns out that negative emotions also play a productive role in learning. To learn more about how emotions may impact learning take the time to read this article. 

"The causes of dyslexia—the disorder that makes reading excruciatingly difficult for about one in twenty school-aged children—have remained frustratingly elusive, as has anything resembling a cure. Training programs for dyslexics have proven effective at improving certain parts of the reading process, such as phonological awareness and auditory perception."

This article discusses some of the new research on dyslixia. Links are provided in the article, and two that you may want check are listed below.

New Font Helps Dyslexics Read: 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/partner/new-font-helps-dyslexics-read.pdf ;

Extra-Large Letter Spacing Improves Reading in Dyslexia:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/29/1205566109.full.pdf?with-ds=yes&nbsp