Reading rockets. Launching young readers. Program 8: Reading and the brain [videroecording] / produced by Christian Lindstrom [GPN] ; coproduced by Keisha Dyson [GPN] ; executive producer, Noel Gunter [WETA] ; director, Steve Abreezi ; written by Christian Lindstrom and Ashley Gilleland.
Format:
[videroecording] /
Publisher:
Distributed by GPN Video, Distributed by GPN Video,
The project is funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Special Programs.
Contents:
Rewriting the brain (Houston, Texas) -- Biomapping the brain (Evanston, Ill.) -- Baby's first reading skills (Louisville, Kentucky) -- Poet Laureate and Painter (Harlem) -- From emotion to comprehension (Toronto).
Summary:
Brain researchers are working to help struggling readers. Researchers included are ; Andrew Papanicolaou (University of Texas at Houston), Dennis Molfese and Victoria Molfese (University of Louisville), George Hynd (Purdue University), Elco Bergman (Texas Reading Institute), Nina Kraus (Northwestern University), Michael Pressley (Michigan State University), Stanley Greenspan (George Washington University), Jehan Shehata-Aboubakr (speech/language pathologist), Angelica Benson (Lindamond-Bell Learning Processes), Stewart Shanker (York University) and Jim Stieben (York University). Also, we meet poet Nikki Giovanni and illustrator Bryan Collier, and actor Henry Winkler.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.