Brain scans predict reading progress in children with dyslexia - About Kids Health.
It has long been known that children with dyslexia use parts of the brain’s left-hemisphere distinctly from that of typical readers. Brain scans reflect these differences by producing discrete ‘activation’ patterns in parts of the left-hemisphere.
Recently, researchers at Stanford University tried to shed light on a concept that is more novel: can brain patterns predict if a child with dyslexia will improve their reading in the future? According to their research, brain scans could make such predictions with over 90 per cent accuracy.
The researchers used two brain imaging techniques, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI). They analyzed the brain patterns of 45 adolescents, while they took a series of reading tests. The adolescents were between 11 and 14 years of age. They were tested on a range of reading abilities, such as how well they were able to distinguish between sounds that make up spoken words (phonemic awareness), how accurately and fluently they could read and how well they understood what they were reading.Read the rest of the article at the link above.
