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Most people would agree they are better at verbal or math subjects in school, as grades usually do attest. Highly intelligent individuals often do well in both subjects, and may know the answers to both questions above, lickety-split, while less intelligent people can struggle. But a minority of us excels in the language department and bombs at mathematics, or vice versa.

By learning more about the regions of our brains responsible for language and math processing, researchers hope to someday better help those with severe deficits, such as in reading ability, called dyslexia, and general numeracy, called dyscalculia.

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It’s a disorder that affects at least ten percent of Canadians, robbing them of the ability to properly read text and numbers and Ingrid Poupart hopes she can make a difference.

Poupart suffers from dyslexia herself and couldn’t read until she was 21 years old.

She says there are crippling self esteem issues for people with dyslexia and it is a push to overcome the fear of a teacher picking you to read a section in school, and the disappointment in learning you’ve failed a test you thought you passed.

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