FSU wants to catch reading difficulties early

Tallahassee is a hopeful place for those with reading difficulties. The NIH just awarded $8.5 over the next five years to FSU to continue studying dyslexia, and the web site invites participants in their study. According to Dr. Rick Wagner, the Florida Center for Reading Research will concentrate on early discovery of reading difficulty. (Previously, they were looking for genetic disposition, but that turned out to be not as fruitful as they'd hoped.) Now they want to be able to identify the difficulty in children as young as three years old; helping students early could eliminate later experiences of failure.