Overview on the areas

These areas have been chosen based on research which suggests they will stimulates parts of the brain that are active in many activities including reading. This means that, surprising as it may seem, development of these skills could help the ability to improve literacy skills.

How can this be possible? Because reading and writing skills are not separate abilities that are held in their own parts of the brain. Reading uses a series of brain processes, and if we stimulate the key areas, then their neurological links will develop and be more receptive to learning, including learning to read. For example, many dyslexics have problems with recognising words, confusing two visually similar words. By training in visual discrimination, that difficulty should be reduced. The following gives a basis outline of the skill areas that this project hopes to address.

(1) Auditory discrimination
(2) Auditory memory
(3) Auditory sequence
(4) Visual discrimination
(5) Visual memory
(6) Visual sequence
(7) Spatial position (e.g. top, bottom, behind, ahead, left, right)

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