My Brain Is A Wordbox? How Your Brain Learns To Read

Written by Sandie Barrie Blackley, Speech-Language Pathologist

Published on March 7th, 2017

diagnosing dyslexia (5) "Did you know that a human brain has an area nicknamed "the wordbox" that is used to help us learn to read? Have you ever thought about how a brain begins to figure out the difference between the letter b and the letter d? Or the letter q and the letter p?

figure-5 In this article in Frontiers for Young Minds, Kassuba and Kastner explain how our brains learn that letters are special in that they are a code we can use to read. How does the brain learn, for example, that the letter o in not like other round objects like basketballs or oranges?

Kids and parents who use Lexercise learn the best ways to train their brain's "wordboxes"!

References

Kassuba T and Kastner S (2015) The Reading Brain - Frontiers for Young Minds. 3:5. doi: 10.3389/frym.2015.00005

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Sandie Barrie Blackley, Speech-Language Pathologist

Sandie Barrie Blackley, Speech-Language Pathologist

Sandie is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a former university graduate school faculty member, and a co-founder of Lexercise. Sandie has been past president of the North Carolina Speech, Hearing & Language Association and has received two clinical awards, the Public Service Award and the Clinical Services Award. She served two terms on the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists.

As a faculty member at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Sandie developed and taught structured literacy courses, supervised practicum for speech-language pathology graduate students, and coordinated a federally funded personnel preparation grant. In 2009, Sandie and her business partner, Chad Myers co-founded Mind InFormation, Inc./ Lexercise to provide accessible and scalable structured literacy services for students across the English-speaking world.