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Three-way help to fight dyslexia
Helping
people with dyslexia connect the sound, spelling and
component parts of words to their meaning appears to
work best in overcoming reading difficulties.
Dyslexic brains can change following interventions to help
with reading, and treatments that focus on different
aspects of word learning appear to produce different
brain boosts, researchers report.
The investigators found that children who participated in
a treatment program in which they focused on matching
the spelling of a word to its sounds experienced different
changes in brain activity than children who received
an intervention designed to help them separate words
into their meaningful parts, such as prefixes and suffixes.
“Instruction
can really change the brain, because the nature of the
instruction affected the brain response,” study author
Virginia Berninger of the University of Washington in
Seattle said.
“We need to help children understand letter, sound and meaning,”
Berninger said.
Source: Delhi Times
Date: 18th February 2004
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