{"id":933,"date":"2026-03-11T15:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/?p=933"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:21:24","slug":"beyond-phonology-visual-orthographic-contributions-to-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/beyond-phonology-visual-orthographic-contributions-to-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Phonology: Visual-Orthographic Contributions to Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>New Insights on Vision and Dyslexia<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading isn't just about language\u2014it starts with vision. Our founder recently presented at the BIU Vision Science Seminar on how the visual system serves as the critical entry gate to reading, and how disruptions in early visual processing can lead to dyslexia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This research challenges conventional approaches to reading intervention and opens new pathways for supporting struggling readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A presentation by Cassandra Potier Watkins, President of Excello, available to watch on video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Watch the talk:<\/strong> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr Cassandra Potier Watkins on &quot;Beyond Phonology: Visual-Orthographic Contributions to Reading ..&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s4LB7V4N2Zc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Insights on Vision and Dyslexia<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"news-keyword":[25,60,24],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recherche","news-keyword-innovation","news-keyword-kalulu","news-keyword-recherche"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"news-keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellolab.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-keyword?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}