Just as a disciplined exercise regimen helps human muscles become stronger and perform better, specialized workouts for the brain can boost cognitive skills.

          With the right kind of intensive instruction, the brain can begin to permanently rewire itself and overcome reading deficits, even if it can’t entirely eliminate them.  Some people’s brains happen to be less proficient at relating written symbols to the sounds of language, and they need focused instruction to get those areas up to an adequate level of performance.

          Any kind of education is a matter of training the brain. When poor readers are learning to read, a particular brain area is not performing as well as it might, and remedial instruction helps to shape that area up. It shows that poor readers can be helped to develop buff brains.

          We are at the beginning of a new era of neuro – education, the plasticity of the human brain can work for the benefit of REMEDIAL LEARNING.

          To have strong readers out of the poor readers, a need for an hour a day with a reading “personal trainer”, a teacher specialized in administering a remedial reading program. This training includes both word decoding exercises in which students will be asked to recognize the word in its written form and task in using reading comprehension strategies.

 

 

 

By: Marilou T. Gammad | T-1 | Luacan National High School