A new study mentioned that by a simple brain scan researchers can predict when children with dyslexia will learn to read. It is known that brain disorder makes it very hard to children even clever ones to learn how to read, which is considered as a critical reason for frustration.
Improvements of children’s reading skills can be predicted accurately by brain scans with an accuracy of 90%, according to a research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).
Bruce McCandliss, one of the lead authors of the study and a professor at Vanderbilt University said, “This study takes an important step toward realizing the potential benefits of combining neuroscience and education research by showing how brain scanning measures are sensitive to individual differences that predict educationally relevant outcomes,”
They found that brain scan can predict how the dyslexic child will read in an accurate way rather than the ordinary reading test or from the child’s behavior. McCandliss said, “This approach opens up a new vantage point on the question of how children with dyslexia differ from one another in ways that translate into meaningful differences two to three years down the line”
He added that the research will help to improve tests that the dyslexic child could get the highest benefit from and enhance his ability to read in an effective way, and said,”'Such insights may be crucial for new educational research on how to best meet the individual needs of struggling readers.”
The research has been conducted by cooperation between experts at the Stanford University School of Medicine and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland and the University of York in the United Kingdom.
