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The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Peer-Reviewed Research Published in Nature Communications Confirms Lindamood-Bell's Seeing Stars(R) Program Improves ...

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This article by Stephanie N. Del Tufo, assistant professor of education and human development at the University of Delaware, has been republished with permission from The Conversation’s Curious Kids ...

Forty-four children with dyslexia, ages 7–13, received eight weeks of intensive instruction using Lindamood-Bell's Seeing Stars® program, delivered live and virtually by trained instructional ...