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Sources: Overcoming Dyslexia, by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.; Straight Talk About Reading, by Susan Hall and Louisa Moats
...findings mesh perfectly with what we already know about how the brain reads, says Dr. Bennett Shaywitz, who co-directs the Center for the Study of Learning and Attention at Yale University. The brain, he explains, does not have an innate reading ability--as it does for speech--so it deals with the written word by converting it into the nuts and bolts of a familiar phonetic language. According to prevailing theory, the reading centers of the brain break words down into sound units known as phonemes and recognize them as the elements of a phonetic code. Then the centers...
...debilitating learning disorder really be remedied by playing games? Other experts, while praising Tallal's work as provocative and challenging, remain skeptical. Tallal, they point out, has not yet demonstrated that her therapy is effective for the broader population of dyslexics. But as Yale University's Dr. Sally Shaywitz, a behavioral pediatrician, acknowledges, "We don't need to speculate. We can carry out studies that answer this question...
...David A. Shaywitz...
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