ON DEMAND: The Development of Reading: Brain imaging and behavior shed new light on dyslexia and its subtypes

The Development of Reading:
Brain imaging and behavior shed new light on dyslexia and its subtypes - 1 CE

This presentation examines recent behavioral and brain-imaging research on how the brain learns to read. Neuronal recycling theory suggests that reading repurposes existing brain circuits for processing letters and letter strings. New imaging and modeling studies show how neurons in the Visual Word Form Area become tuned for reading and how disruptions in this process contribute to reading deficits.

We will discuss two practical consequences of this research for education: (1) How should reading be taught? Recent evidence favors a strict phonics approach, focusing on an explicit teaching of letters, their order, and how they combine into graphemes that systematically correspond to phonemes; Dr. Dehaene will present their efforts to develop the Kalulu software and curriculum, which accelerates the acquisition of reading in 1st grade, and the tools that his lab provides to improve reading education at the French governmental level; (2) How can we improve the understanding and diagnosis of the different subtypes of dyslexia? He will show that, aside from phonological deficits, two types of dyslexia (letter-position dyslexia and attentional dyslexia) arise solely at the visual letter-processing level, and I will present a new test that facilitates their diagnosis.

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