Workshop for Educators: Reading and the Brain (Gabrieli & Christodoulou)
Date and Time
July 16 - July 19, 2013
All day
The Neuroscience of Reading: Using Research to Understand Reading Acquisition and DisordersFrom July 16-19, 2013, Learning & the Brain will offer a Summer Institute on the campus of the Massachusetts Instiute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.
This Institute will review what is currently known about the brain basis of reading ability and disability. Neuroimaging has revealed how plasticity in the child's brain supports learning to read, and how differences in brain structure and function are associated with reading disability, such as dyslexia. You will examine how neuroscience knowledge may be translated into educational policies and practices in relation to topics such as diagnosis, prognosis, early identification of children at risk for dyslexia, and identification of children who will or will not benefit from a specific kind of intervention. Through lectures and facilitated discussion, participants will gain the skill to evaluate the relevance of neuroscience discoveries for students, teachers and other educators. Participants will also observe real, live neuroimaging measures of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, event-related potentials (ERPs), and magnetoencephalography (MEG). The institute is designed to be an intense, hands-on workshop with group projects and therefore is limited to 35 participants.
This Institute will review what is currently known about the brain basis of reading ability and disability. Neuroimaging has revealed how plasticity in the child's brain supports learning to read, and how differences in brain structure and function are associated with reading disability, such as dyslexia. You will examine how neuroscience knowledge may be translated into educational policies and practices in relation to topics such as diagnosis, prognosis, early identification of children at risk for dyslexia, and identification of children who will or will not benefit from a specific kind of intervention. Through lectures and facilitated discussion, participants will gain the skill to evaluate the relevance of neuroscience discoveries for students, teachers and other educators. Participants will also observe real, live neuroimaging measures of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, event-related potentials (ERPs), and magnetoencephalography (MEG). The institute is designed to be an intense, hands-on workshop with group projects and therefore is limited to 35 participants.