Post by cynthiatweedle on Feb 8, 2006 19:18:20 GMT -5
Brain images show individual dyslexic children respond to spelling treatment
Brain images of children with dyslexia taken before they received spelling instruction show that they have different patterns of neural activity than do good spellers when doing language tasks related to spelling. But after specialized treatment emphasizing the letters in words, they showed similar patterns of brain activity. These findings are important because they show the human brain can change and normalize in response to spelling instruction, even in dyslexia, the most common learning disability.
The research is unique in that it looks at images of individual brains rather than the composite group images, or maps, that are typically produced
Read full article here:
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/uow-bis020806.php
Brain images of children with dyslexia taken before they received spelling instruction show that they have different patterns of neural activity than do good spellers when doing language tasks related to spelling. But after specialized treatment emphasizing the letters in words, they showed similar patterns of brain activity. These findings are important because they show the human brain can change and normalize in response to spelling instruction, even in dyslexia, the most common learning disability.
The research is unique in that it looks at images of individual brains rather than the composite group images, or maps, that are typically produced
Read full article here:
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/uow-bis020806.php
