[senco-forum] [SENco-forum] [SENco-forum] Dyslexia and general learning needs

MRI scans have made great leaps in seeing what happens in brains.

However as ever the research is mired by multiple variables.  For instance I
found a great paper showing that Auditory and Phonological training brings
about brain changes and improvements in reading. Great!

Then I read on to find that the subjects used these ICT exercises for
nearly 2 hours per day, 5 days a week for 30 days = 60 hours.

EP Martin from Dyslexia Action's "Spellit" report found that 2 hours per
week for a school year (?)with a dyslexia tutor also made huge
reading/spelling gains.

Has anyone evaluated ICT versus SpLD tutor results?  No. Nor one ICT
training programme against another that I can find as yet.

Research often has lots of areas of interest, but this takes too long to
filter down into easily applied and concrete support. This ICT programme has
the potential to be cheaper, but is less flexible.  Children on the course
made <O to <5 points reading improvement.  So -it worked for some but not
others!

They showed that there were changes to brain areas linked to mapping of
phonological processing that gave improved oral language skills leading the
researchers to regard any improvements in reading, the point of the ICT
programme, as a secondary effect for some with dyslexia.

Sharon

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I don't usually bother a lot with theory unless I can get something
practical out of it and  it was v. interesting to read  your views (as
always).........Incidentally, has a comparative study of all the different
approaches to reading difficulties in terms of success rate ever been
carried out ?

Luisa>

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