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Join a community of parents, teachers, tutors, researchers, SLPS, and administrators interested in reading research! Stay informed on the latest reading research while saving time and money. It can be hard to access and understand the latest reading research. We do it for you! The Reading Recap newsletter searches over 40 academic, peer-reviewed journals as soon as they are released and provides you with a list of relevant research, links to the original article and any open access versions of it, as well as in-depth coverage of 1 (and occasionally 2) studies each week!
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Benefits:
1) The latest reading research delivered right to your inbox!
2) We comb through 40+ peer-reviewed journals (such as Scientific Studies of Reading, Annals of Dyslexia, Reading Research Quarterly, Reading & Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal), etc. and select the most relevant articles to summarize.
3) One-sentence summaries (okay, okay, sometimes 2 or 3-sentence summaries) of research tell you what you need to know. If you want to know more, you can always message me to get more details.
4) More and more articles are open access. We will link to the full free article when it is published open access.
5) Save time- now you don’t have to search the internet for the information you need to be a better practitioner.
6) Save money- most articles are hidden behind an expensive paywall. We pay for the subscriptions and summarize the studies so you don’t have to.
About Me (Neena Saha, PhD)
As a former SPED teacher, researcher, and mom of a son who had delayed language skills, I am passionate about taking research out of the lab and getting it in the hands of practitioners who need it most: parents, teachers, SLPs, and other service providers.
I have been on all sides of the research-to-practice continuum. I started as a special education teacher of reading, trained in the Wilson method of reading. I went back to school and got my masters in educational neuroscience from Columbia University and recently completed my PhD in special education from Vanderbilt University where I studied typical and atypical reading development with an emphasis on the acquisition of decoding skill.
As a teacher I was desperate to find the latest research, but it was expensive to subscribe to scientific journals and I didn't have the time to wade through the complicated stats and methods.
As a graduate student I saw both sides of the publication process. I had my research studies go through the peer-review process and I reviewed other researcher's papers. My own research was presented at international reading conferences and was published in peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Learning Disabilities, Annals of Dyslexia, and Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
However, I was still unsatisfied with the state of the research-to-practice gap. This really hit home when my own son was diagnosed with an oral language speech delay. We were able to witness first-hand how early implementation of research-based interventions can lead to dramatic gains. Before he started speech therapy he was in the 7th percentile on one measure of expressive oral language. A year later he had fully caught up to his peers. But what baffled me was the fact that it was so hard to: 1) get access to the latest research on oral language interventions and 2) understand where one single study stood among the body of research. I think it can sometimes feel overwhelming for parents and teachers to dive into the research. The Recap addresses this by providing small, frequent access to the research in a way that is understandable and accessible.
As a teacher, researcher, and parent it was easy to see that we needed solutions to the research-to-practice gap. I started the Reading Research Recap newsletter to help bring the amazing research being conducted in labs all over the world to the people who care about it the most.
