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Brain, Education, and Mind Lab | #reading #dyslexia #cognition #assessment | education, clinical, research contexts | led by Dr. Joanna Christodoulou.
MGH Institute, Boston, MA
Joined April 2014
RT @harvardbrainsci: HBI Connectome Spotlight: @Joanna22c ."I lead the Brain, Education, and Mind (BEAM) Lab, conducting research on the br….
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Join @BEAMstudies director @Joanna22c for a webinar on reading and brain plasticity this Saturday.
Want to know more about the Reading Brain?. This webinar will review current research on brain plasticity, student characteristics associated with reading gains over time, as well as with 'learning loss' in reading. Join @Joanna22c online on December 10:.
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The BEAM Lab is so proud to partner with the @hkentschool to provide summer programming for elementary school students and training for @MGHInstitute graduate students. Congrats on our 5th year! @IHPResearch @MGHIHPnews @MGHInstitute @Joanna22c #reading #summer #MGHIHPCSD.
More than 1,000 public-school pupils have been helped by MGH Institute speech-language pathology students over the past five years, thanks to a partnership between MGH Institute and Harvard-Kent Elementary School. Read more:
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Honored to have the future Dr. @maguireSLP part of the BEAM Lab, and grateful for her "voice for good"! Check out her fantastic story featured by @MGHInstitute:
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Congratulations to @BEAMstudies lab member Amy @maguireSLP for presenting on the role of working memory in #reading and #math post-hemispherectomy. Manuscript forthcoming! Thank you for having us, @BrainRecoveryP
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Congratulations to @BEAMstudies lab member @RebeccaAMarks for presenting our research collab with @gabrieli_john on #dyslexia and #math at #IMBES2022!.
Also - Conclusions from our study of comorbid #dyslexia and #dyscalculia from this amazing team at @mitbrainandcog and @IHPResearch. Comorbid reading + math difficulties associated with poor #EF AND visual processing differences but no differences in #phonologicalawareness
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RT @MGHInstitute: Dr. Joanna Christodoulou, Director of the Brain, Education, and Mind (BEAM) Lab, is the PI on a $3,758,142 five-year, NIH….
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Another summary: "ADHD status alone had no measurable influence on reading performance or brain activation. Impaired EF in dyslexia, independent of ADHD status, was associated with greater deficits in reading fluency and greater reductions of activation in response to print. ".
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Thanks to coauthors from the the labs of @gabrieli_john and @Joanna22c including: Noor Al Dahhan, Kelly Halverson, Carrie Peek, Dayna Wilmot, @aniladmello, @RachelRRomeo, Olivia Meegoda, Andrea Imhof, Karolina Wade, Anissa Sridhara, Eric Falke,.@tmcentanni.
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📢New findings on reading and executive function (EF): We find that students with dyslexia are similar to those with dyslexia + ADHD, but readers with stronger or weaker EF differ in reading brain systems and reading performance.
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RT @learningandtheb: What can neuroscience tell us about teaching #reading?. Join John Gabrieli & Joanna Christodoulou (@Joanna22c) to cons….
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📢Join @Joanna22c, @jwashingtonPhD, @RachelRRomeo, Carla Stanford, Gwendolyn Cartledge & Paul Morgan for @yesread's virtual conference 10/15/21 on dyslexia, literacy, and vulnerable students.
Join us virtually Friday October 15, 2021 for the annual TDF conference: #Dyslexia, #Literacy & Vulnerable Student Populations. Dr. Joanna Christodoulou will be speaking on "Poverty, the Brain and Early Literacy Development" Register: #edchat
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RT @educationweek: Welcome to the #K12LDChat! 👋 We're pleased to introduce our knowledgeable host, @lkubatzky. Stay tuned for Q1! https:….
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RT @Joanna22c: New preprint available 👇👇 on motivation and anxiety in reading and math skills from this fabulous team!..
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RT @CandleUSC: Eager to pack it all in this summer? Don't forget to #SlowYourRoll since mental rest is good for your brain, as @nytimes rem….
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RT @mcgovernmit: Today, we'd like to thank everyone who has participated in our autism research studies. We believe in societal acceptance,….
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4/n *New Research on ID'ing Reading Disabilities* .Highlight 3: The criteria used to identify SLD in reading vary across, and sometimes within, school settings.
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3/n *New Research on ID'ing Reading Disabilities* .Highlight 2: Only about half of practitioners indicated that school-based practitioners are allowed to use the term dyslexia in their setting.
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2/n *New Research on ID'ing Reading Disabilities* .Highlight 1: The time between a child struggling with reading to when IEP-based changes to the child’s education are implemented is about 13.5 months.
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*New Research on ID'ing Reading Disabilities (1/n).Al Dahhan, N. Z., Mesite, L., Feller, M. J., & Christodoulou, J. A. (2021). Identifying Reading Disabilities: A Survey of Practitioners. Learning Disability Quarterly. *pre-print:
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