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Week 3 Topic:
“Dyslexia” (Garrett & Hough, 2022, p.295).
When most people hear the word dyslexia they think about letters flip-flopping or showing up backward. However, dyslexia is a complex neurologically-based learning disability and the letter flip-flop is not necessarily what happens.
Explain the impairments experienced by individuals diagnosed with dyslexia.
Explain some of the neurological areas that are different in those with dyslexia.
Find a current event from the past three years focused on dyslexia and summarize it for the class. The current event might focus on research, intervention (e.g., teaching strategies), or even a case study. TIP: Use Google News to find recent current events. Remember, a current event is published in a popular news media outlet (it is NOT a peer-reviewed journal article).
Use the following headings in your post:
– Impairments
– Neurological areas
– Current event
Here is a very good video that explains the brain’s role in reading and dyslexia.
YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrF6m1mRsCQ
The green is the Broca’s Area responsible for articulation (sounding out the letters)
The purple is the Parieto Temporal Area (next to Wernicke’s Area) responsible for word analysis
And the blue is the Occipito-Temperal Area (near the visual processing center) responsible for word form
