Bernard Chang and colleagues, who study a rare genetic disorder called periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH), have found evidence that points to a specific relationship between certain brain structures and dysfluent reading. People with PNH have difficulty reading fluently and their genetic disorder causes a known aberration in neural structure. Their fluency in reading is correlated with the degree of disorganization in their brains.
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Daily Archive for December 4th, 2007
Jane Vance Rule, a novelist who had dyslexia as a child, died 27 November 2007. Among her many books and stories, Ms. Rule’s novel Desert of the Heart was the basis for a movie entitled “Desert Hearts” is 1985 by Donna Deitch.
Of course, it’s hard to know about the diagnosis of dyslexia, especially given that she was successful as a writer, so some might wonder about Ms. Rule’s problems with literacy constituted dyslexia. For now, I only have the Wikipedia assertion about Ms. Rule’s dyslexia. If some reader has additional data, I’d welcome posting of the evidence.
Link to an obituary from the Globe and Mail and to a Wikipedia entry about Ms. Rule. Flash of the electrons to Starr Hill Girl for alerting me to Ms. Rule’s death.
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