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Kenneth Pugh, Ph.D. |  | Kenneth Pugh, Ph.D. President and Director of Research, Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories; Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Connecticut | | | 2011 International Conference Presentation Information: | Methodological Issues in Neuroimaging studies of Skilled Reading and Reading Disability: Establishing brain/behavior links. In a large developmental study of children at different ages and reading levels brain/behavior analyses revealed that the development of reading fluency is strongly associated with the development of the left hemisphere posterior reading system. A recently completed intervention study examined the influence of intensive phonological remediation in reading disabled children, revealing substantial gains in both reading performance and a corresponding development of the left hemisphere posterior reading system for children afforded this treatment. We also consider how these neurobiological techniques might be used in helping us to identify those children, at earlier stages of development, at high risk for later reading difficulties. | | |
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