I am glad to see another study about dyslexia and IQ not being related. I say another because there have been dozens of larger and better studies done going back over 10 years. The need for most MRI and dyslexia studies generally is limited to verification of already proven facts combined with the media and public's fairly common perception that they are more valid than interviews and paper testing. MRIs lack the resolution to determine individual results as normal dyslexia testing does but since much of the public won't believe anything about dyslexia until it is "proven" by MRI let's shout this old news from the roof tops. The importance of the concept of dyslexia and IQ not being related is that lower IQ children have often improperly been excluded from consideration as being dyslexic and so are missing out on the opportunity of help that comes with being diagnosed dyslexic. Please read that long run-on sentence again. Presently dyslexic children with lower IQ's who could benefit from interventions as well as the smarter dyslexics are not being given the chance to be considered as dyslexic because of their lower IQs. That must be changed. MRI studies are actually not the gold standard for information about dyslexia. Consider that all the children in MRI dyslexia studies are actually put into the different groups determined by standard pen and paper testing combined with oral tests. I am at a loss as to why the media puts these MRI dyslexia studies as a source of primary information when they are really just supporting previous research conclusions. I posted an article in Aug/2006 that was based on years of earlier studies that basically said that dyslexia and IQ were not related. There were also some good studies that identified lower IQ dyslexics and determined that they benefited from dyslexia intervention as much as the higher IQ dyslexics did. Yes , those studies have already been done where lower IQ dyslexics have been diagnosed and given dyslexia interventions with the results that their improvements from interventions were similar to the higher IQ dyslexics given the same interventions. Here is the article I wrote in 2006 dyslexiaglasses.com/dyslexia_myths_revisited.html . It was based on information available from many years before 2006.