None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This PhD project investigates a phonics based treatment program for Australian children who have severe problems learning to read (developmental dyslexia). In particular these children have difficulty learning to 'sound-out' word and thus have poor phonics skills (phonological dyslexia). The treatment will focus on improving phonics skills (i.e., parsing, letter-sound correspondences, and blending) in these children (50 children). The results of this reading treatment trial will aid Australia's efforts to developing effective treatments of dyslexia.
Interventions
The phonics based reading treatment will train parsing, letter-sound rules, and blending. These skills will be trained using an online reading program and thus, children will complete their reading training at home on their home computers under parental supervision. Children will train for 30 minutes per day, 5 days per week, for 3 weeks.
Sponsors
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS)
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Single group
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
7 Years to 12 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Children who have (1) English as their first language, (2) no problems with attention, hearing, sight, or behaviour, and (3) poor reading for their age.
Exclusion criteria
Poor attention, poor hearing, poor visual acuity, severe developmental delay
Outcome results
None listed