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The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) is an open-source, online reading assessment platform that is designed to bridge research and practice. Our vision is to develop and validate…

We are soon going to have 1-2 new postdoc or research scientist positions for candidates with exceptional technical skills and collaborative, interdisciplinary research interests. The first position will be taking…

An open-source platform of reading assessment Rapid Online Assessment of Reading Ability Yeatman, J. D., Tang, K. A., Donnelly, P.…

Kenny is a research coordinator in the Reading Dyslexia Research Program here at Stanford. We sat together in the education building for a chat about his experience research and hopes…

Competing theories of dyslexia posit that reading difficulties arise from impaired visual, auditory, phonological, or statistical learning mechanisms. Importantly, many theories posit that dyslexia reflects a cascade of impairments emanating…

The Yeatman (Stanford University) and Rokem (University of Washington) labs have 2 years of funding for a jointly mentored postdoc who is interested in capitalizing on new innovations in data science…

In their compelling opinion piece, Snell and Grainger breathe new life into the debate about parallel versus serial processing of text during reading. They marshal several pieces of evidence against the…

Donnelly PM, Huber E, Yeatman JD. Intensive Summer Intervention Drives Linear Growth of Reading Skill in Struggling Readers.Frontiers in Psychology (2019) A major…

In most environments, the visual system is confronted with many relevant objects simultaneously. That is especially true during reading. However, behavioral data demonstrate that a serial bottleneck prevents recognition of…

Our previous work revealed that some people struggle with reading due to elevated visual crowding. Optimizing text for an individual’s visual system: The contribution of crowding to reading difficulties. …