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Post by hsmom on Jun 2, 2017 14:31:35 GMT -5
Below is a link to the newest issue of IDA's "the examiner" with the article "Time to Revisit Reading Discrepancies in Twice Exceptional Students?" and other articles that may interest others. tinyurl.com/ycqw6dnf[Open in new window] |
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Post by healthy11 on Jun 2, 2017 18:17:08 GMT -5
Thank you for sharing this, hsmom. The way I read the article, "2e" is in fact an accurate description of most high IQ students with reading difficulties, as they are both gifted and disabled.
"...In a brain imaging study published recently, brain activation patterns in high-IQ children who had much lower (albeit “average—age-appropriate”) single-word reading ability were examined (Hancock, Gabrieli, & Hoeft, 2016). Remarkably, these children showed reduced brain activity in the same regions as readers with dyslexia—in findings from this study as well as in findings from earlier studies. Despite normal reading achievement, the brains of these children showed some of the same characteristics—left temporo-parietal dysfunction believed to be associated with phonological processing—as those of poor readers. These children showed less brain activation in these critical areas than both children with high IQ and high reading ability and children with normal IQ and normal reading ability. These children with high IQ and average reading ability demonstrated dysfunctional brain activation patterns—instead of an expected “IQ advantage” over normal readers with normal IQ.
The evidence provided in this research is consistent with the view that these children should be identified as having dyslexia because their brains are “dyslexia-like” with reduced brain activity in the same regions as other readers identified as having dyslexia..."
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Post by melvinhoward on Oct 26, 2017 4:40:55 GMT -5
Below is a link to the newest issue of IDA's "the examiner" with the article "Time to Revisit Reading Discrepancies in Twice Exceptional Students?" and other articles that may interest others. tinyurl.com/ycqw6dnf[Open in new window] The article 'Why Study Nonverbal Skills in Dyslexia?' is a good read. |
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