CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Biological Determinism, Reading Recovery, Full-Court Press
16 Mar 2017
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Composition of students with disabilities over 50% of exceptionalities. Reading is not a natural process it is learned. Learn to speak automatically by hearing people speak and by being spoken to, not the case for reading. Comprehension, they read and understand what it means (where children aim to be in reading) Clumping up and disorganization of brain cells in left hemisphere. Premature interruption of cell migration in the left hemisphere is associated with rd. Fist thing to develop is the spinal colum, and brain cells migrate up the left-brain hemisphere and they clump together. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (snip) on dcdc2 lead to a mutation, is a associated with reading disability. If dyslexia was purely genetic we would expect both twins to be affected: why isn"t it 100%? unsure. The importance of environment (genetic determinism: you"re determined by your genes which is not true. Instructional reading programs for children with learning disabilities.
