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The (brilliant & changing) dyslexic brain
The physiology of a person with dyslexia is different than that of a normal reader. This is important to know because not only can the brain actually physically change with dyslexia remediation, dyslexia also comes with some gifts that make for a unique expression of brilliance.
Here are 3 things you should know about the physiology of dyslexia:
1) Dyslexia is strongly hereditary. Geneticists have identified 6 genes linked to dyslexia, and are examining 4 more. Three of those genes are located on chromosomes 6, 15, and 1.
Chromosome 6: responsible for phonemic awareness
Chromosome 15: responsible for rapid processing of language
Chromosome 1: responsible for visual memory for words.
In dyslexic people, these genes are coded differently. Can you see why language is so difficult?
2) Dyslexia comes with right-brained brilliance. In people with dyslexia, autopsies have shown consistently that people with dyslexia have a larger right hemisphere than nondyslexic people. For that reason, dyslexic people have enormous gifts (right-brain related) that the rest of us could only wish for.
3) Dyslexia requires extra effort from the frontal lobe of the brain. Functional MRI’s have shown that in a normal reader, the person processes from three parts of the brain:
The occipital lobe first (it’s in the back of the brain and it grabs words for instant recognition), helped by...
the parietal lobe (above the occipital)
and the frontal lobe.
In people with dyslexia, FMRIs show no nerve endings going to the occipital and parietal lobes! Dyslexic readers are processing strictly in the frontal lobe, an extremely tedious task at best.
Now here’s the striking part: After 150 hours (twice a week for an hour), FMRIs show the dyslexic brain looking exactly like the nondyslexic brain!
In other words, the brain actually changed with remediation so that the person was processing reading from the occipital AND parietal AND frontal lobes of the brain.
There is effective remediation for dyslexia.
I want people to be aware of this research because the sad part is that the results have not yet reached the schools, and your child is not likely to have a teacher who understands dyslexia.
This is precisely why we started our business. Our lives are about helping children, and we could no longer keep this knowledge inside our heads where it would do absolutely no good. And if the schools don’t want this information, then we’ll spread it on our own.
To get an idea of our training, as well as keeping yourself up-to-date on dyslexia research, you might like to check out the web site of the woman who trained us: www.BrightSolutions.US. Check in from time to time because Susan Barton is phenomenal in her thoroughness.
You can also learn more about how this system can help your child get to grade-level reading and become a confident learner for life.
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