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A structural–functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers

sea-maid submitted, created time 7 months 3 weeks (www.pnas.org)

This study tell us that the scientists have found different structural and functional abnormalities in dyslexic readers of Chinese, a nonalphabetic language. Compared with normally developing controls, children with impaired reading in logographic Chinese exhibited reduced gray matter volume in a left middle frontal gyrus region previously shown to be important for Chinese reading and writing.

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Dyslexic diversity

jane2007 submitted, created time 9 months 1 hour (www.nature.com)

Children with dyslexia have trouble learning to read, but the cause of their difficulties depends on what language they are attempting to learn, according to a study.

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Infants from bilingual homes preserve visual language skills longer

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nature.com)

According to studies out of the Universities of Oxford and of British Columbia, children under the age of six months react to the changes in mouth shape that occur when an adult speaker switches languages. Eight-month-old babies raised in bilingual homes retained this ability longer than their monolingual counterparts.

The study highlights the importance of mouth shape to very young children -- probably an adaptation for learning to talk -- but I don't see why babies born deaf wouldn't have that affinity too. I wonder how we could use this to help deaf children.

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