Dyslexia and the Brain
What parts of our brain light up when we read? How does the brain of a child with dyslexia work differently? In this video, Guinevere Eden, PhD, walks us through dyslexia and the brain: which...
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We've known for some time what childrenwith dyslexia look like in terms of their reading skills,skills in areas of language — like rhymingand what's called phonemic awareness.But the brain research has really added to thisby showing us what the brain looks like when people readand what the brain looks likewhen people with dyslexia read.And there are some differences.When we think about reading, we need to rememberthat we are really probing a person's abilityto understand that words are made up of soundsand that those sounds have a representationin their written counterparts, in the letters.And this is where things can become very difficultfor a child — understanding that a wordthat sounds like one continuous sound, like "cat&...
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We've known for some time what childrenwith dyslexia look like in terms of their reading skills,skills in areas of language — like rhymingand what's called phonemic awareness.But the brain research has really added to thisby showing us what the brain looks like when people readand what the brain looks likewhen people with dyslexia read.And there are some differences.When we think about reading, we need to rememberthat we are really probing a person's abilityto understand that words are made up of soundsand that those sounds have a representationin their written counterparts, in the letters.And this is where things can become very difficultfor a child — understanding that a wordthat sounds like one continuous sound, like "cat&...
