How Noise And Nervous System Get In Way Of Reading Skills
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 07:28
in Psychology & Sociology
A child's brain has to work overtime in a noisy classroom to do its typical but very important job of distinguishing sounds whose subtle differences are key to success with language and reading. But, according to a new study, that simply is too much to ask of children whose nervous systems' have trouble transcribing "ba," "da" and "ga," three little sounds that mean so much to literacy.