Dr. Nadine Gaab

After 94 hours (!!!) of coursework over the summer/early fall, I am pleased to announce that I am now a board-certified Special Education advocate, certified by the National Association of Special Education Teachers and the American Academy of Special Education Professionals.

Last ride of the season? #Boston #Fall

I read the headline below and jumped in the car! Flu shot ✅, COVID shot ✅!!! 😷🦠💉

Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

Trump Administration Turns Up Heat on Harvard With Financial Lever The university has been placed on heightened cash monitoring, a status typically reserved for colleges that are seen as being at risk of financial failure.

Weeks after Harvard University won a lawsuit to free up federal research dollars the Trump administration had canceled, the Education Department is making it harder for Harvard to get federal student aid money.

Brain Development Signals Reading Challenges Long Before Kindergarten Developmental trajectories of children with and without reading disabilities start to diverge around 18 months, rather than at 5 or 6 years old.

Brain Development Signals Reading Challenges Long Before Kindergarten www.the74million.org/zero2eight/b...

Yes, I know and I preach it in all my classes but it doesn’t seem to make a difference…sigh

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Just attended Kid 1’s Highschool back to school night. If I hear “learning styles “ or “growth mindset “ one more time, I need to seriously consider homeschooling!! Why do these myths don’t die???

Why Teachers Say Yes (or No) to Research Participation—and What Researchers Can Learn From It
From SRI International

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Harvard researcher working to identify students with reading problems at younger ages A big problem in schools is the troubling number of students who read below their grade level.

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While we are unable to identify individual kids with brain imaging, this suggests that the trajectories of kids with #reading disabilities may diverge as early as 18 months, indicating that, in the future, we may be able to identify (& intervene!) much earlier.

Federal judge rules that Trump administration unlawfully cut nearly $3 billion of Harvard’s research funding - The Boston Globe The decision found that the Trump administration violated federal laws and Harvard’s First Amendment rights in canceling the grants. The Trump administration is likely to appeal.

Yes!!! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/b...

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Reflections From the August 13 Indiana State Board of Education Meeting Andrea Setmeyer, National Chapter Director at The Reading League, and founding president of The Reading League Indiana, was invited to the Indiana State Board of Education meeting on August 13, 2025, ...

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Shefali Rai, Signe Bray, et al:

How much is “enough”? Considerations for functional connectivity reliability in pediatric naturalistic fMRI

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Large-scale multi-site study shows no association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding - Nature Communications Widely cited studies have claimed that musical training is associated with enhanced neural encoding for sound at early stages of the auditory system. Results from this large-scale multisite study do n...

music lessons don't make kids smarter, but many people have assumed that music lessons would have near-transfer effects, e.g. improving aspects of auditory perception

big new study led by Andrew Oxenham says "nope".

music lessons make kids better at music & that's good enough reason to do 'em !

Mapping the development of neural structures supporting literacy | PNAS Mapping the development of neural structures supporting literacy

Very interesting commentary in response to our recent PNAS paper by Ethan Roy (Stanford). Thank you!
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Basel, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Massachusetts’ sinking reading scores should be a five-alarm fire on Beacon Hill - The Boston Globe Some of the strongest pushback against state literacy requirements has come from Massachusetts’ wealthiest communities.

Massachusetts’ sinking reading scores should be a five-alarm fire on Beacon Hill

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/o...

How do math, reading skills overlap? Researchers were closing in on answers. — Harvard Gazette Federal grant was terminated at critical point of ambitious study that was following students for five years.

How do math, #reading skills overlap? Researchers were closing in on answers.

Grant terminated at critical point of ambitious study following students for five years.
Please read about our work affected by the grant terminations.
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Have you been using ABCD data? Are you measuring psychopathology with the CBCL? You will want to check out our latest preprint, led by @kanepav.bsky.social, which shows that the constructs measured by the tool fail to meet many basic validity tests. Peep the thread!

Missouri lawmakers ban controversial reading instruction model as primary method • Missouri Independent Missouri lawmakers passed restrictions on a method of reading instruction called "three cueing" in an effort to improve K-12 literacy.

missouriindependent.com/2025/07/11/m...

Haha, thank you!!! ☺️

Jamie, I would also love to see your proposal. I started talking to some publishers…📝

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional.
📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...

Beautiful Cape Cod, MA!

US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

Congratulations 🎈!!! I was so excited when I heard the news! We will be in good hands with you!!! Thank you!

On the relationship between word reading ability and spelling ability - Reading and Writing The goal of the present study was to test theories about the extent to which individual differences in word reading align with those in spelling and the extent to which other cognitive and linguistic ...

"Our results suggest that word reading and spelling are one and the same, almost, but that spoken vocabulary knowledge is more closely related to reading than to spelling." Open article from the great Rebecca Treiman and colleagues. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Boston launches new business training, certification for disability inclusion - The Boston Globe The program will explore how businesses across the city can better accommodate disabled people, be it through a threshold ramp at an entrance, sensory-friendly hours, or a website with alternative tex...

Boston launches new business training, certification for disability inclusion

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/04/b...