Children who suffer from dyslexia often have a difficult time learning how to read, which could present problems while they're in school.

However, a new study is suggesting that neuroimaging could predict how much a dyslexic's reading skills will improve overtime. Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine suggest that neuroimaging can help predict a student's reading outcome with 90 percent accuracy.

Researchers are quick to point out that although these findings are promising, there is still a lot of work to be done in terms of future studies.

"This gives us hope that we can identify which children might get better over time," said Dr. Fumiko Hoeft, an imaging expert and instructor at Stanford's Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research. "More study is needed before the technique is clinically useful, but this is a huge step forward."

The study used 25 dyslexic students and 20 who read at a typical level and used standardized tests and neuroimaging to determine their reading skills. The researchers then revisited these results two and a half years later and determined that neuroimaging was more likely to predict reading skills than standardized tests.