Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fAD5xc021869; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:59:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:59:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <001001c16c09$35698da0$2bcdeed0@pavilion> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Barbara E. Morey" <advocate@olypen.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3761] Comments for Jeri Levesque X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; Status: O Content-Length: 4994 Lines: 106 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C16BC6.265229A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Jeri, You have raised some interesting questions about the brain = processes in some of the listening and reading skills. "I'm not exactly >sure how the ability to listen and make meaning manifests itself in the brain." Neil R Carlson, U of Mass, Amherst, in his text "Physiology of = Behavior", c. 2001 in Table 16.1 and in a related discussion on Aphasic = Syndromes Produced by Brain Damage states: "The reading and writing skills of people with aphasia (difficulty in = producing or comprehending language/speech not produced by deafness, = visual loss, or a simple motor deficit; caused by brain damage)almost = always resemble their speaking and comprehending abilities. For example, = patients with Wernicke's aphasia (posterior portion of superior temporal = gyrus) have as much difficulty reading and writing as they do speaking = and understanding speech. Patients with Broca's aphasia (frontal cortex = rostral to base of primary motor cortex) comprehend what they read about = as well as they can understand speech, but their reading aloud is poor. = If their speech is agrammatical, so is their writing; and to the extent = that they fail to comprehend grammar when listening to speech, they fail = to do so when reading. Patients with conduction aphasia ( white matter = beneath parietal lobe superior to lateral fissure--arcuate fasciculus) = generally have some difficulty reading; and when they read aloud, they = often speak semantic synonyms for some of the words they read, just as = they do when attempting to repeat what they hear. Depending on the = location of the lesion, some patients with transcortical sensory aphasia = ( posterior language area) may read aloud accurately but fail to = comprehend what they read...Reading and writing undoubtedly share many = /brain/ modules with oral comprehension and production, but some modules = are devoted to particular methods of communication."=20 Interesting correlation of anatomy and speech/ = reading/comprehension/writing, isn't it?...Barbara ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C16BC6.265229A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type = content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Hi Jeri, You have raised some interesting questions = about the=20 brain processes in some of the listening and reading skills. = "<FONT=20 size=3D3>I'm not exactly<BR>>sure how the ability to listen and make = meaning=20 manifests itself in the<BR>brain."</FONT><BR>Neil R Carlson, U of Mass, = Amherst,=20 in his text "Physiology of Behavior", c. 2001 in Table 16.1 and in = a=20 related discussion on Aphasic Syndromes Produced by Brain Damage=20 states:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>"The reading and writing skills of people with = aphasia=20 (difficulty in producing or comprehending language/speech not produced = by=20 deafness, visual loss, or a simple motor deficit; caused by brain = damage)almost=20 always resemble their speaking and comprehending abilities. For example, = patients with Wernicke's aphasia (posterior portion of superior temporal = gyrus)=20 have as much difficulty reading and writing as they do speaking and=20 understanding speech. Patients with Broca's aphasia (frontal cortex = rostral to=20 base of primary motor cortex) comprehend what they read about as = well as=20 they can understand speech, but their reading aloud is poor. If their = speech is=20 agrammatical, so is their writing; and to the extent that they fail to=20 comprehend grammar when listening to speech, they fail to do so when = reading.=20 Patients with conduction aphasia ( white matter beneath parietal = lobe=20 superior to lateral fissure--arcuate fasciculus) generally have = some=20 difficulty reading; and when they read aloud, they often speak semantic = synonyms=20 for some of the words they read, just as they do when attempting to = repeat what=20 they hear. Depending on the location of the lesion, some patients with=20 transcortical sensory aphasia ( posterior language area) may read aloud=20 accurately but fail to comprehend what they read...Reading and writing=20 undoubtedly share many /brain/ modules with oral comprehension and = production,=20 but some modules are devoted to particular methods of communication."=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Interesting correlation of anatomy and speech/=20 reading/comprehension/writing, isn't = it?...Barbara</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C16BC6.265229A0--
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