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A Randomized Controlled Trial on The Beneficial Effects of Training Letter-Speech Sound Integration on Reading Fluency in Children with Dyslexia

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  • Gorka Fraga González
  • Gojko Žarić
  • Jurgen Tijms
  • Milene Bonte
  • Leo Blomert
  • Maurits W van der Molen

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A recent account of dyslexia assumes that a failure to develop automated letter-speech sound integration might be responsible for the observed lack of reading fluency. This study uses a pre-test-training-post-test design to evaluate the effects of a training program based on letter-speech sound associations with a special focus on gains in reading fluency. A sample of 44 children with dyslexia and 23 typical readers, aged 8 to 9, was recruited. Children with dyslexia were randomly allocated to either the training program group (n = 23) or a waiting-list control group (n = 21). The training intensively focused on letter-speech sound mapping and consisted of 34 individual sessions of 45 minutes over a five month period. The children with dyslexia showed substantial reading gains for the main word reading and spelling measures after training, improving at a faster rate than typical readers and waiting-list controls. The results are interpreted within the conceptual framework assuming a multisensory integration deficit as the most proximal cause of dysfluent reading in dyslexia.Trial Registration: ISRCTN register ISRCTN12783279

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  • Gorka Fraga González & Gojko Žarić & Jurgen Tijms & Milene Bonte & Leo Blomert & Maurits W van der Molen, 2015. "A Randomized Controlled Trial on The Beneficial Effects of Training Letter-Speech Sound Integration on Reading Fluency in Children with Dyslexia," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(12), pages 1-24, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0143914
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143914
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    1. Katharina Galuschka & Elena Ise & Kathrin Krick & Gerd Schulte-Körne, 2014. "Effectiveness of Treatment Approaches for Children and Adolescents with Reading Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(2), pages 1-12, February.
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