Sought for Howard Foundation Fellowships - Anderson Empties in a Wave of Departmental Moves Bookbeat New Books from CLAS Grants Grant Awards for May 1999 and June 1999 from the Division of Sponsored Research Back Issues CLASnotes is published monthly by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to inform faculty and staff of current research and events. I magine staring at a page of text written in plain English and not being able to recognize words that you know you have seen before. The letters make familiar shapes spaced evenly across the page, but you can't recall the sounds associated with them. These are not individuals who have had a lack of exposure to reading, have depressed intelligence, or lack the motivation to read.
Evaluations take four to five hours.
We examine all aspects of reading, spelling and writing, and based on the results, we recommend treatment if appropriate. Since developmental dyslexia runs in families, when a sibling or parent has similar problems, it helps practitioners identify the disorder. In addition, multi-sensory programs teach patients the specific rules of language that most people are able to pick up implicitly. Teaching these kinds of rules to people with developmental dyslexia helps them break down language into its essential parts, bridging a neurological gap and allowing them to grasp explicitly what the rest of us take for granted. In fact, many of the patients she treats are gifted students, who thrive when taught through the multi-sensory approach.