Wolf, M. (2007). Proust And The Squid
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In Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolf comprehensively discusses the history of reading, the process of learning to read, and difficulties that can exist within the reading brain. By citing a great deal of current brain research and drawing from her own experience as a professor and parent, Wolf makes a powerful case for the biological basis of reading difficulty and disability. In doing so, she may help lead the way into a new educational era in which students with reading difficulties are acknowledged for their strengths, not weaknesses, and reading disabilities are seen as learning differences rather than academic flaws.
Wolf begins her discussion about the reading brain by examining the process in which human beings first learned to read. Unlike other abilities like vision and language, reading is not a part of natural development. A great deal of brain automaticity and sensory integration is involved in reading as the brain must take in and process a large amount of......
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