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Publication Date: 1990
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Commissurotomy of the Corpus Callosum and the Remedial Reader.
Albert, Elaine
Testimony presented at a congressional hearing on illiteracy (March 1986) indicated that good readers use their myelinated corpus callosum fibers (which connect the left and right hemispheres of the brain) at millisecond speeds to coordinate the two brain hemispheres. Students taught using the whole-word recognition method (also called the look-say method and the whole language approach) from the start up to age 9 demonstrate effects resembling those caused by the surgical commissurotomy of the corpus callosum. Some researchers feel that there are several external effects that can be used with remedial readers to make up for the corpus callosum which has gone out of the business of decoding print, including: (1) oral reading; (2) using a fescue-pointer; (3) round robin oral reading; (4) sharing a book using a fescue to guide the reader's attention; and (5) confirming correct readings with immediate praise. These researchers also feel that the whole language approach, which puts primary stress on gathering meaning has, in the end, destroyed it. (RS)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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