Below is a list of conferences and events where the Stanford Taylor Foundation will have a presence. We hope to see you!
edWebinar – The Overlooked Metrics Impacting Literacy Outcomes: Reading Efficiency and Underdeveloped Visual Skills
August 11, 2026
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Online
Two critical, but often-missed factors sit underneath students’ reading struggles: inefficient reading habits and underdeveloped visual skills. These factors are more common than most educators realize. Roughy 70% of students reading at below proficient levels read inefficiently. And signs of underdeveloped visual skills appear in about half of low-performing elementary readers and a quarter of middle schoolers. Most assessments tell educators that a student is struggling, not how efficiently they read or whether the student’s visual skills are ready to handle the demands of reading. Neither inefficient reading nor underdeveloped visual skills are disabilities; they can be developed through targeted visual skill and reading efficiency instruction.
More Info23rd European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM)
August 30, 2026
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September 3, 2026
Ulm University
Ulm, Germany
We will present research on Visual Skills as Predictors of Reading Efficiency: Implications for Reading Instruction.
More Info33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR)
July 16, 2026
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July 18, 2026
Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre WTC Rotterdam
Rotterdam, Netherlands
We will present research on the Interactions Between Cognitive Load and Visual Skills in 4th- and 5th-Grade Readers.
National School Leaders Conference
July 13, 2026
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July 14, 2026
Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort
Orlando, Florida, USA
Please join us at a lunch and discussion of our research.