Our weekly reminder that learning disabilities emerge early in development, are “brain-based”, and need evidence-based treatments just like any other developmental condition.
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Study in preschoolers suggesting #reading skill correlated with mainly left hemisphere cortical thickness in higher #SES and bilateral in lower SES, consistent with our white matter study https://t.co/xbckvHBHDr. https://t.co/r7leAT2r0f
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If there is a compensatory mechanism for #dyslexia it is likely to be the mapping from orthography to meaning to phonology in the left hemisphere, consistent with the division of labor proposed by Harm and @Seidenberg. https://t.co/DAhSNdVyJv
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RT @DrJamesBooth: We have shown that higher skill in lower #SES is related to greater white matter in the right vOT, whereas higher skill i…