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Neuroscience: What Neuroimaging Reveals and Doesn't about Reading Difficulties -  Dr. Sally Shaywitz. Point of View: David Boulton: To begin with, help us understand your passion and point of view. Dr. Sally Shaywitz: All right. I'm a neuroscientist, but a pediatrician by training. My interest in trying to better understand learning disabilities, and particularly reading difficulties, came from my own experience as a resident, seeing many, many children and their families. Over the years I've really gotten to know so many children and their families, and also I've seen the children grow up and got to know them as adolescents and young adults and even adults. David Boulton: So, you connected up with and empathized with the challenges they're living through in some way that drew you in.

Dr. David Boulton: Yes. Dr. David Boulton: Yes. Dr. David Boulton: Right. Dr. David Boulton: Good. Dr. So, our first goal was to see if the technology could work, and to be able to identify and localize what are the brain systems used in reading. Dr. David Boulton: Okay. Dr. Dr. Connecticut Longitudinal Study:

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