The article I chose was: Dyslexia and the Brain: What Does Current Research Tell Us?
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/dyslexia-and-brain-what-does-current-research-tell-us
Three things that I learned from this article were: people with dyslexia have structural brain differences, people with dyslexia have functional brain differences, and over 2.8 million school-aged children are plagued with the problems of dyslexia. The most important thing that I took from this article is that while dyslexia has no cure, explicit, intense, systematic instruction in the sound structure of language (phonemic awareness) and in how sounds relate to letters (phonics) can help readers who suffer from dyslexia. I think it is important, as teachers, that we understand that there is such a large number of students who suffer from dyslexia and that dyslexia is actually neurobiological in origin. These students' brains work differently from our own, so we must make special accommodations in order to help them succeed and achieve their goals.
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