CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Doublecortin, Reading Recovery, Reading Disability

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P35
• Professor: John Mc Namara

Document Summary

Composition of students with disabilities over 50% of exceptionalities. Reading is not a natural process it is learned. Reading disabilities are associated with minor dysfunction in the superior temporal lobe and the posterior parietal regions of the central nervous system fmri results consistently show underactivation in left hemisphere and over activation in right hemisphere. Neural ectopia clumping up and disorganization of brain cells in left hemisphere. Cell migration theory premature interruption of cell migration in the left hemisphere is associated with rd. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (snip) on dcdc2 lead to a mutation. Mz twins share 100% of their genes. Dz twins share 50% of their genes. If dyslexia was purely genetic we would expect both twins to be affected. Instructional reading programs for children with learning disabilities. We know the science behind reading disabilities. We know that younger children are particularly open to neural sculpting. We know that our practices need to directly address how brains process information.