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  • United Response Welcomes Report On Human Rights Of Adults With Learning Disabilities
    The national disability charity United Response has welcomed the publication of The Joint Committee of Human Rights report, 'A Life Like Any Other?'Chief Executive Su Sayer, has particularly welcomed the committee's recommendations on the need for a human rights based approach to healthcare, but has called for other issues such as a right to employment not to be overlooked.

  • Supporting Brain Imaging Studies Of Children With Autism And Dyslexia
    Two researchers at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research will head an ambitious new project to study the origins of autism and dyslexia, supported by a $8.5M grant from the Ellison Medical Foundation. The project leaders, Nancy Kanwisher and John Gabrieli, are prominent experts in neuroimaging and human brain development.Autism and dyslexia are complex brain disorders that first appear in early childhood.

  • First Cell Phone That Reads To The Blind And Dyslexic Released By Joint Venture Of Kurzweil Technologies And The National Federation Of The Blind
    K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., a company combining the research and development efforts of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies, Inc., unveils an exciting product line that will revolutionize access to print for anyone who has difficulty seeing or reading print, including the blind and learning disabled.

  • Slow Reading In Dyslexia Tied To Disorganized Brain Tracts
    Dyslexia marked by poor reading fluency -- slow and choppy reading -- may be caused by disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain, according to researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). The study, using the latest imaging methods, gives researchers a glimpse of what may go wrong in the structure of some dyslexic readers' brains, making it difficult to integrate the information needed for rapid, "automatic" reading.

  • Brain Abnormalities Discovered In People Who Have Trouble Reading Fast
    Some people who have problems reading quickly appear to have abnormalities in the white matter of their brains, according to research published in the December 4, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers say these findings provide a model to better understand ways in which the brain may have developed differently in people with learning disabilities.

  • Rewiring Dyslexic Children's Brains Using Sound Training
    Some children with dyslexia struggle to read because their brains aren't properly wired to process fast-changing sounds, according to a brain-imaging study published this month in the journal Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. The study found that sound training via computer exercises can literally rewire children's brains, correcting the sound processing problem and improving reading.

  • 25th Anniversary Of BIDMC Dyslexia Research Lab
    In the 25 years since establishing the Dyslexia Research Laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Albert Galaburda, MD, has witnessed a dramatic transformation in thinking among both scientists and the public."Over the years, there have been a host of explanations offered to explain dyslexia," says Galaburda, Chief of the Division of Behavioral Neurology at BIDMC whose work has played a key role in influencing the field.

  • Having Right Timing 'Connections' In Brain Is Key To Overcoming Dyslexia
    Using new software developed to investigate how the brains of dyslexic children are organized, University of Washington researchers have found that key areas for language and working memory involved in reading are connected differently in dyslexics than in children who are good readers and spellers.

  • New York Hosts Major Conference On Dyslexia
    The New York Branch of The International Dyslexia Association will be holding its 34th Annual conference on Dyslexia & Related Learning Disabilities titled Closing The Gap Between Research and Practice on Monday, March 12 & Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at the Marriott Marquis, New York, New York. The two day conference offers 107 sessions and 60 exhibitors.

  • New UCLA Study Challenges Theory Of Inner Clock
    "Time" is the most popular noun in the English language, yet how would we tell time if we didn't have access to the plethora of watches, clocks and cell phones at our disposal?For decades, scientists have believed that the brain possesses an internal clock that allows it to keep track of time. Now a UCLA study in the Feb. 1 edition of Neuron proposes a new model in which a series of physical changes to the brain's cells helps the organ to monitor the passage of time.

  • New Dyslexia Theory Blames 'Noise'
    The dyslexic brain struggles to read because even small distractions can throw it off, according to a new model of dyslexia emerging from a group of recent studies.The studies contradict an influential, 30-year-old theory that blamed dyslexia on a neural deficit in processing the fast sounds of language.Instead, the studies suggest that children with dyslexia have bad filters for irrelevant data.

  • Link Between A Sound And A Reward Changes Brain And Behavior
    If you've ever wondered how you recognize your mother's voice without seeing her face or how you discern your cell phone's ring in a crowded room, researchers may have another piece of the answer.Their work indicates that once you figure out your mother's voice is a good thing - most days - fairly significant changes occur in the sensory cortex, the part of the brain that responds to sound.

  • Learning Disabilities: NIH Turns To FSU For Top Research
    Florida State University has been awarded a $6-million grant from the federal government over five years to fund research efforts aimed at more effectively understanding, predicting and preventing the development of learning disabilities such as dyslexia in children, it was announced today.The grant will fund the creation of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center at FSU.

  • Brain Images Show Individual Dyslexic Children Respond To Spelling Treatment
    Brain images of children with dyslexia taken before they received spelling instruction show that they have different patterns of neural activity than do good spellers when doing language tasks related to spelling. But after specialized treatment emphasizing the letters in words, they showed similar patterns of brain activity.

  • Dyslexia risk gene identified
    About five million Germans have serious learning difficulties when it comes to reading and writing. It is frequently the case that several members of the same family are affected. So hereditary disposition seems to play an important role in the occurrence of dyslexia. Scientists at the universities of Marburg, Würzburg and Bonn have been working on this question together with Swedish colleagues from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.


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