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The 26-year-old actor, currently promoting the David Cronenberg film A Dangerous Method, which is out in UK cinemas on 10 February, told GQ magazine she learned to bypass her dyslexia by focusing on the script and imagining what Thompson would do in her shoes.
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Some time ago I received a letter from England that was written by an intelligent, accomplished and motivated adult who had a “reading problem.” He had been taught to read by the look-say method and exhibited the usual symptoms of dyslexia, and he wanted to know how to cure his disability.
He had read one of my articles on dyslexia and wrote:
It was extremely interesting, logical and above all explained the whole problem. It gave me important clues as to my own disabilities with reading and writing. I do’nt [sic] remember which method of reading I was taught, but I am positive it was the look-say method; this would certainly explain my difficulties in reading and writing as a child; and to this day I still have problems with reading or should I say misreading and especially spelling.
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It would probably come as a major shock for any middle-aged adult to find out that he has a learning disorder. But what if that man was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and the disorder was dyslexia, which fundamentally affects one’s ability to process language? That is precisely what happened to Philip Schultz, a writer whose self-worth and self-understanding were rocked by the relatively late-in-life discovery.
In his new memoir, “My Dyslexia,” Schultz shares what it was like to grow up as a member of what he calls the “dummy class”
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Prereading children with a family history of developmental dyslexia (DD) show reduced activity in the bilateral occipitotemporal and left temporoparietal brain regions during phonological processing exercises, according to a study published online Jan. 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Nora Maria Raschle, Ph.D., from the Children’s Hospital Boston, and colleagues analyzed functional magnetic resonance imaging scans taken in 36 prereading children during phonological processing exercises to identify functional networks. Eighteen children with a familial risk for DD (average age, 66.5 months) were compared with 18 age- and IQ-matched controls.
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Young children at risk for developing dyslexia showed abnormalities on functional MRI (fMRI) brain scans even before they began learning to read, researchers found.
Children who have a family history of developmental dyslexia showed significantly lower activation of the bilateral occipitotemporal and left temporoparietal regions (P<0.005) on fMRI than controls, according to Nadine Gaab, MD, of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues.
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Dyslexia is a developmental disability which can hinder a child’s learning to read and write, and sometimes speak.
The severity can be mild or severe, but the sooner its diagnosed, the better a child can develop.
Now researchers say brain MRI’s can spot dyslexia before a child starts school.
Thirty-six preschool-age children were studied. Those with a family history of dyslexia had reduced brain activity when compared with the control group children.
Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing children at risk before or during kindergarten could head off difficulties and frustration in school.
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