Literacy Specialist Who Works in Adult Education. Article Review

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literacy specialist who works in Adult Education. You have noticed that reading is very difficult for people to learn in adulthood, and you wonder whether this might be related to brain plasticity.

Gaillard, WH et al. (2002) Language dominance in partial epilepsy patients identified with an fMRI reading task, Neurology, 59, 2, 256-265

Search words:reading + fMRI; Google Scholar; neuroscience.

Poldrack, RA, Desmond, JE., Glover, GH & Gabrieli, JD. (1998) . The neural basis of visual skill learning: an fMRI study of mirror reading. Cereb. Cortex, 8, 1-10.

Search words:reading + fMRI; Google Scholar; neuroscience.

Guinevere F.E. et al. (2004) Neural Changes following Remediation in Adult Developmental Dyslexia, Neuron, 44, 3, 411-422

Search words: reading + fmri + adults + neuroplasticity; Google Scholar; neuroscience.

Brain imaging studies have investigated the neural mechanisms of recovery in adults following acquired disorders and childhood developmental disorders. However, there are few to no studies that investigate the neural systems that underlie adult rehabilitation of neural-ingrained learning disorder (i.e. those from birth) despite their high incidence.

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In this study, researchers identified the differences in brain activity during a phonological manipulation task before and after a behavioral intervention in adults who had developmental dyslexia. Phonologically targeted training resulted in improvements in reading in the instructed participants as compared to the dyslexics who received no instruction, and fMRI showed concordant increases in activation in the bilateral parietal and right perisylvian cortices. Authors concluded that behavioral plasticity in adult developmental dyslexia involves two neural mechanisms (or regions in the brain)

24 participants were used. A sublecxical sound deletion task was employed where researchers tested for phonological processing. They tested 19 dyslexic patients who did not receive reading instruction with 19 dyslexic patients who had received instruction (112 hours of structured multi-sensory phonological intervention) and using FMRI identified regions of the brain that were activated during the study. . .

Adults who received instruction benefited significantly in their phonological processing….....

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