Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
caeli · 3686 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Test That Can Look Into A Child's (Reading) Future : NPR Ed : NPR
Cool! This adds to the evidence that reading ability is ultimately influenced by sensory abilities. Postmortem studies of dyslexic children's brains have shown weird abnormalities in early visual and auditory processing areas of the brain. Training kids to better recognize speech sounds improves their reading capabilities quite a bit. There's even some evidence that dyslexic children improve after being trained on discriminating movement direction in random dot fields! Crazy stuff.