Rewiring the dyslexic brain

Overcoming learning disorders is now becoming a realistic goal for neuroscientists and therapists. Seven years after their twin papers in Science suggesting the efficacy of intensive auditory training in children with language learning impairment, the Tallal-Merzenich team now report convincing evidence of just what such training programs can change in these children's brain. With the help of functional imaging, they demonstrate significant reorganization in both hemispheres after only eight weeks of daily training.