Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h3SDZrU12899; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:35:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:35:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4259D212.14D07ACB.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:258] RE: 10 principle of improving reading (for adults too?) X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1747 Lines: 21 Dear Tom, I am just back from a Learning and the Brain Conference. Processing of reading skills takes place in boys in the left temporal lobe and in girls takes place in both left and right temporal lobes (right and left areas of forehead). Reading information then is stored at the back of the brain, left hemisphere. In disabled readers this transfer does not happen. Through interventions, retraining, the right side of the brain, right hemisphere, can be used for storage, and reading is achieved. The brain is very plastic. (Shaywitz, 2003) This pre and post evidence was recorded through PET scans, which show blood flows (actually glucose--sugar--metabolism) in brain areas which are working harder in comparison to other areas. I have not shaded, qualified, any statements here and I will when I write this up for myself. This does not mean that all students with reading difficulties have the same types of reading difficulties, many problems are the result of poor teaching. I am describing those readers whose brain networks do not make the connections in the left hemisphere between processing and storage. Many poor readers have not had sufficient practice with processing to enable them to make the left hemisphere connections. I heard Galaburda speak (I think it was last fall), and he has his explanation for the missing connections which seems reasonable. I won't summarize it here unless somebody wants me to, it takes time and new vocabulary. I have not heard, lately, anyone credible in neuroscience talking only of phonics, instead, phonics is included as one of five elements which include: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, as Mary Schneckenburger describes. Andrea
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