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- Brain imaging technology could influence how teachers reach out to students with ADD, auditory and speech disorders, and learning disabilities. Researchers at Yale have found that. compared to normal readers, dyslexic children use a different part of the brain to read, and they show less activity in the brain region that links print skills to the brains language areas. Brain scans can be used to help identify students whose problems are biological and brain based. (Covino 2002, 27).
- Imaging techniques that allow scientists to observe the brains of children as they solve academic problems may have implications for teaching reading to dyslexic children. Some research has shown that dyslexic children appear to have abnormal functioning of specific areas of the brain. Multisensory remedial teaching techniques used with dyslexic children have shown promise for specific individuals; this research may help explain why certain techniques work better than others. As further research connects teaching techniques to brain functioning, there may eventually be a well-documented "brain-based" reading approach (Bergen 2002, 378).
