None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Five to ten percent of primary school children fail to learn to read at the standard expected from their intelligence and educational and cultural background. This condition is known as dyslexia. In 2005-2006, a dyslexia project is being conducted in participating Southern Tasmanian schools. Past work has shown that some children with normal intelligence have reading problems because of problems with coordinating both eyes to read visual images. The project aims to screen for vision coordination problems among children with low literacy. It is not currently known what proportion of children who have difficulty reading have vision problems in relation to scanning text with both eyes working together. The main aim of the Literacy Pathways Project is: To assess how children may benefit from different programs to assist them with reading. Each program contains a mixture of activities that are based on past work indicating that they have benefited some children with reading problems. The relative importance of the different components within or between the programs is currently not known and is the subject of the educational trial. Participants are unaware of the intervention status and commercial names of the reading programs in the study. The programs are referred to as the orange, yellow or green program. Participants are not aware of the content of the other programs. The people conducting the assessments are blind to intervention status. Analysis - The true group allocation will be removed for the analysis and only added back in at the end. That is, the analyst will only analyse the data being aware of the orange, yellow or green categories but not the intervention status associated with each.
Interventions
There are three intervention groups all with some efficacy. Interventions A and B will each be compared to C.
A. visual predominant/phonological training, 10 weeks ( one hour per week face to face, 6 hours a week homework)
B.phonological predominant/visual training , 10 weeks( one hour per week face to face, 6 hours a week homework)
Sponsors
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
7 Years to 13 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Children in the lowest decile of literacy according to Grade 3 national literacy and numeracy tests who also have poor stereovision on screening assessment. Children must reside in Southern Tasmania (telephone 0362).
Exclusion criteria
Major intellectual impairment or epilepsy.
Outcome results
None listed