The Dyslexia Research Registry in funded through the National Institute 
of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD).  The NICHHD has funded 4 
Learning Disability Centers.

Colorado LD Center at the University of Colorado

Florida LD Center at Florida State University

Northeast LD Center at the Kennedy Krieger Institute

Texas LD Center at the University of Houston

 

Each conducts its own independent research projects. 

 

There are five current research projects at the Florida LD Center. 

 

Project 1 addresses alternative approaches to classification and 
prevention that include new measures of emergent literacy and response 
to instruction in a large scale study of 1,500 preschool age children.

 

Project 2 addresses alternative approaches to classification, the role 
of effective instruction in preventing or minimizing the expression of 
learning disabilities, and a fundamental assumption of response to 
instruction models in two large scale studies of elementary school-age 
children.

 

Project 3 addresses etiology, identification, and classification of 
individuals with dyslexia in a state-wide sample of over 100,000 
children in Reading First schools, and in a large-scale, twin-based 
quantitative genetic study of 9,000 pairs of twins.

 

Project 4 addresses the molecular genetics and behavioral 
characteristics of profound reading impairment in a family genetics 
study.  This project will also establish a national registry of families 
with one or more family members who are profoundly impaired readers. 
Families in the Dyslexia Research Registry will be contacted to be given 
an opportunity to participate in studies of reading.

Project 5 addresses underlying dimensions of performance in vocabulary 
and fluency, and tests alternative models of the development of reading 
and writing in a four-year longitudinal study of 300 children in first 
through fourth grades.

 

What areas do you see as the most critical to research?

 

Where do you see the gaps in research today?


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