An interventional study of Music training and Visual arts in Reading Disability, sponsored by Aix Marseille Université. Completed. Open to participants aged 8 Years to 11 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2014-12-15.
Sponsored by Aix Marseille Université · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of this study is to determine whether music training is an effective treatment of reading disorders
Introduction: Children with dyslexia show deficits in temporal processing, both in language and in music. Musical activity increases phonological awareness, word segmentation, working memory, as well as reading abilities in children with typical development, a compelling evidence for a role of music training in fostering brain plasticity. Within this theoretical framework, we investigate the hypothesis that music training, by improving temporal processing and rhythm abilities, improves phonological awareness and reading skills in children with dyslexia.
Methods: The study is a prospective, multicenter, open randomized controlled trial, consisting of test, rehabilitation and re-test
124 studies on the registry are indexed under Dyslexia; 27 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 48 is below the median of 76 across 106 interventional studies indexed under Dyslexia.
Browse Dyslexia studies →Aix Marseille Université is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
twice a week one hour for 30 weeks, music training
Behavioral: Music training
twice a week one hour for 30 weeks, visual arts training
Behavioral: Visual arts
This program was based on the Kodaly and Orff pedagogy and adapted to focus on rhythm and temporal processing.
This program emphasized visual-spatial and hand skills as well as creativity.
Pseudoword reading test
The primary outcome variable was the performance in the pseudoword reading test measured in terms of accuracy (percentile of number of errors).
Time frame: six months
Reading text
Reading a short standardized text, measured in terms of accuracy (percentile of number of errors) and speed (z score of reading syll/sec or time).
Time frame: six months
Phonological awareness
Phonemic blending task. Children have to blend sounds into words (e.g. hearing \[c\]-\[a\]-\[t\] and produce \[cat\]). The number of correct items is the dependent variable.
Time frame: six months
Word reading
The ability to read aloud single words and pseudowords is measured on a standardized list of 102 Italian words
Time frame: six months
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