Seminar 2003 Dyslexia by Georgia Niolaki https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp Can an exercise-based treatment programme enhance literacy? en-us 2019-03-13 08:54:46 UTC 2021-07-11 12:54:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dartstarget.png https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344755387 Question 1 : some of the previous research "proving" that DORE is effective do not actually compare to a control group so it is uncertain whether the changes are actually meaningful. Also, the study comparing control and treated, there isn't a massive difference in results. So research for efficacy isn't that strong]]> 2019-03-25 11:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344755387 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344760574 Q1: There is no significant evidence that DORE improve literacy skills. The study supporting this intervention wasn't conducted in clinical group of children with dyslexia. Minority of them was diagnosed with this disorder. Sampling was based on the Dyslexia Screening Test rather than well validated test. The data on the literacy test doesn't provide evidence for the efficacy of the DORE programme. This intervention improve skills that are actually trained such as balance and bread-threading.]]> 2019-03-25 11:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344760574 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344761320 Question 2: Exercise-based treatment programme cannot work because many people with dyslexia don't show motor/balance problems, so this type of treatment may have no effect at all]]> 2019-03-25 11:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344761320 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344762692 Q2: Duncan et al. (2019) suggest that movement intervention applied alone isn't enough to enhance language ability. There is no evidence that exercise-based treatment may improve higher-level skills dysfunctional in dyslexia.]]> 2019-03-25 11:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344762692 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344764033 Q3: Optimal intervention should combine movement and literacy skills training. It should be examined within clinical group of children diagnosed with dyslexia. Randomised control trial would show significant results for efficacy of the intervention in comparison to placebo control group]]> 2019-03-25 11:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344764033 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344773688 While exercise-based treatment may not be able to enhance language ability on its own, its links with more generalised learning could show that being used in conjunction with other treatments could enhance literacy skills. Perhaps if more research into interlinking treatments was conducted, this could be found useful?]]> 2019-03-25 12:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344773688 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344773761 I feel that exercise-based treatment can enhance literacy. However, there are many other ways to enhance literacy and exercise-based interventions are not the only way to do it. There are many studies that indicate language tasks and other literacy based tasks can help and could even be better than exercise-based treatments.]]> 2019-03-25 12:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344773761 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344774997 DORE has shown to be effective for some children with cerebellum difficulties, in that it has helped improve reading ]]> 2019-03-25 12:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344774997 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344776868 Due to limited research about the effectiveness of exercise-based programmes, current intervention should focus on language and literacy tasks and visual processing aids, whilst more research is being conducted into exercise intervention and other less researched types of intervention, so that parents and dyslexic people and children aren't given misleading information or having to go through 'treatment' programmes that don't work.]]> 2019-03-25 12:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344776868 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344894385 Q1 Not enough evidence and research to prove the theory, therefore DORE can't be proved as effective and worth the money it costs. There is no control group in to offer a comparison between children with dyslexia and children without. Also small sample size and actual experiment not carried out correctly.]]> 2019-03-25 16:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344894385 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344901358 Q1: Because it does not have a control group to compare it to, also they didn't follow up all the participants that were taking place, not everyone was followed up in the study. ]]> 2019-03-25 16:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344901358 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344913897 Q3 With exercise-based treatments it is imperative to find children who are already below-average with their abilities, further emphasized by John Stein (2003). This could heavily impact the study into how effective the treatments work and therefore could evidence that there is an issue with exercise-based treatment. ]]> 2019-03-25 16:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/344913897 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345186448 Q1: DORE cannot be proven to be effective as it hasn't been properly tested. Standardised tests weren't given, the groups weren't randomised and not all participants were followed up after the study. So it is impossible to know if DORE is effective from this study. ]]> 2019-03-26 11:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345186448 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345189368 The methodology of the tests examining this was highly questionable, lack of sufficient evidence]]> 2019-03-26 11:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345189368 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345190363 Question 1: There is a lack of evidence showing that general cerebellar development will improve dyslexia. Typically treatment focuses on the specific part of the brain responsible for that function. An improvement in bead threading and balance may indicate cerebellar development, but due to its many regions, it does not indicate improvement in the specific areas responsible for dyslexia and language deficits. The lack of a randomised control group also means that findings cannot be compared to a base level.]]> 2019-03-26 11:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345190363 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345190736 Q1) expensive- people wont be able to afford it, so its not accessible. based on flawed methodology with no control. fire drill problem- did the research, didn't report the findings. ]]> 2019-03-26 11:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345190736 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345190997 Q1: the fact that 'only a minority of them had diagnoses of specific learning difficulties' - how can researches derive treatments for dyslexia on non-dyslexic individuals. There were also no standardised tests (if any, it was one literacy test 'a one minute reading' to measure the dyslexia and relied on screening. Also, the control group was not really compared to so the data does not appear to be based on evidence, rather than coincidence. ]]> 2019-03-26 11:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345190997 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345191558 Q1: Bias in recruiting participants: the fact that only one child in the study has an ADHD diagnosis, and only a minority of participants had diagnoses of specific learning difficulties.]]> 2019-03-26 11:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345191558 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345191569 Q2) Athletes that are dyslexic but have good motor ability. Not enough research evidence to conclude that the cerebellum development was the cause of dyslexia. it could be the other way around (association not causal)

]]> 2019-03-26 11:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345191569 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345191927 Q3) interventions should be based on good research and have clear aims and structure. Make sure there are standardised tests

]]> 2019-03-26 11:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345191927 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345193185 Q1: Theoretically, the treatment has a lot of promise, as other studies have proved that exercising the brain improves brain function, i.e. London taxi drivers. So if the studies had been conducted properly then they may have found reliable and valid evidence for it. ]]> 2019-03-26 11:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345193185 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345193432 Q1: They didn’t have a standardised test. The data on literacy tests did not provide convincing evidence for the efficacy of the Dore programme. There were no control data on those measure. The timing of these tests was not synchronized with the study.

]]> 2019-03-26 11:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345193432 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345193756 Q3- PT 2- interventions should be tested using controls such as children with dyslexia ranging from mild- severe and had no previous interventions (all previous interventions should be considered).

]]> 2019-03-26 11:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345193756 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345195278 Q2 (for exercise portion): Duncan et al. 2019 found that children in a movement and story-telling group had higher naming vocabulary post treatment scores (8 weeks) than 2 groups of controls (movement alone and story-telling alone). Reflecting that a combined treatment including movement and story-telling is effective in increasing children's language ability. However, the story-telling group scored significantly higher than the movement alone group, indicating that the reading-based task was more influential in increasing language ability than the exercise-based task. Providing evidence that movement isn't as influential as story-telling with regard to increasing language ability.]]> 2019-03-26 11:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345195278 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345195515 Q2: Duncan et al. found that movement and story telling intervention had a significantly increased language abilities compared to movement only an story-telling only conditions which suggests it could improve dyslexia. ]]> 2019-03-26 11:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345195515 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345195718 Duncan et al. (2019) suggests that combing movement and story telling improves motor competence and language ability more so than either movement or story telling, isolated. Children with better motor competence also have higher levels of academic achievement (Jaakkola et al. 2015), this may be because motor competence allows children to engage in physical activity more. Although the link between physical activity and academic achievement is supported by several studies, it is difficult to establish causality between the two. Physical activity may improve concentration by eradicating restlessness which facilitates better learning, instead of motor competence and language skills being directly linked.]]> 2019-03-26 11:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345195718 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345196071 In Duncan et al.(2019), the results support exercise improving literacy ability BUT this was proposed as a combined treatment alongside story-telling rather than exercise alone. Also, the study only focuses on people WITHOUT learning difficulties or attention deficits ' Participants were also only eligible to take part if they did not have a recognised special educational need (e.g. dyslexia) or behavioural problems'. So, it cannot be used as an intervention for dyslexic individuals in the same way that it can for 'normal' individuals. ]]> 2019-03-26 11:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345196071 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345196377 Q2:

Evaluation of an exercise-based treatment for children with reading difficulties.

Reynolds D (2003) - within this paper pupils were treated with DDAT exercise treatment and were tested using specialist cerebellar/vestibular and eye movement tests. The treatment showed direct effects on balance, dexterity and eye movement control, the benefits of the DDAT exercise treatment transferred significantly to cognitive skills underlying literacy, to the reading process, and to standardized national literacy attainment tests.

]]> 2019-03-26 11:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345196377 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345196848 past research has shown that active play has an increase in academic achievement. in order to keep children to focus and stay alert. An app called "Nessy" is a program directed at children which gives them motivation to learn and achieve by them receive stars and trophies within the software when completing the tasks. They first complete a task which can indicate what field the child is struggling with and the program gives the child the specific tasks to aid them.Teachers are also able to look into the childs records to aid them more on specific tasks they struggling with.]]> 2019-03-26 11:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345196848 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345196977 Q1) DORE cannot be effective because there were a lot of methodological issues such as the groups not being randomized, validated tests were not used, not all information about the study was released such as results of the control group. To measure improvement SAT scores were used which have been argued to be subjective. The results were not compared to the control group. Only 8 children actually had dyslexia out of the 29 that were followed up from a total of 35 children.

]]> 2019-03-26 11:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345196977 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345198511 Q3: interventions should be focused on improving validated tests rather than superficial screening tools that are not designed to diagnose dyslexia. Additionally, intervention should address the mismatch in individual children between their general ability and literacy skills. Instead, Dore only focuses on the increase in literacy skills rather than a comparison between literacy and general ability. This could be due to the child learning the Dore assessment tasks, or through growing older and becoming more cognitively capable. Conclusively, interventions should focus on dyslexics disproportionately low literacy skills (when compared to their general ability), rather than looking solely at their literacy skills improvement over time.]]> 2019-03-26 11:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345198511 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345199165 Q2) Duncan et al shows that in conjunction with story-telling, motor exercises can improve literacy skills but thus cannot be a direct link with 'curing' dyslexia. ]]> 2019-03-26 12:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345199165 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345199270 Q2) Some researchers argue that the exercise based treatment is beneficial as it improves cognitive skills underlying literacy, reading process and standardized nation literacy attainment tests (Rodrick, 2003).

Reynolds 2007 stated the treatment is highly significant as it reduces the symptoms of inattention. The results showed no change in speeded tests of reading and spelling, but improvement was sown on (age adjusted) reading.

]]> 2019-03-26 12:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345199270 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345199357 Reynolds D (2007) produced a follow up study 18 months after the original study in 2003 and the follow-up performance indicated significant gains in motor skill, speech/language fluency, phonology, and working memory. ]]> 2019-03-26 12:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345199357 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345199520 Duncan et al. (2019) found that combining both movement and story-telling offer benefits to both physical and communication developments, more effective and efficient than the Dore programme, which only focused on movement alone. Haapala et al. (2017) concluded that promoting a physically active lifestyle may benefit the development of reading skills in children. Becker et al. (2014) suggested that self-regulation grows when increasing active play, which then leads to improvements in academic achievement. ]]> 2019-03-26 12:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345199520 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345200981 Q3) An intervention should have randomized groups and tests should be validated not just screened. The results need to be compared to a control group to make sure that that any improvement is actually significant. Participants should not be put into groups where there more likely to be at an advantage,]]> 2019-03-26 12:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345200981 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345201068 Dore is not effective since there is no evidence that dyslexia is caused by cerebellum dysfunction. DORE might positively influence the learning and cognitive abilities and improve multi tasking skills that helps production and interpretation of language, however, there is no direct link of improving the symptoms of dyslexia.]]> 2019-03-26 12:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345201068 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345205954 Q3: An intervention should have psychometric developmental measures, double blind experimenter and 3 groups; control group, treatment group and control group with different treatment. ]]> 2019-03-26 12:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345205954 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345608473 Q1) It is mostly based on testimonials; mismatch between what the data showed and what was claimed; children improve with maturation – not because of the treatment; no replication can be done because we have no method

]]> 2019-03-27 09:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345608473 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345608852 Q1 - Researcher Bias - not reporting some of the results, not providing standard errors, not making the evaluators blind to what condition they were evaluation, not randomly allocating the children to each condition.]]> 2019-03-27 09:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345608852 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345609091 Methodology was not reported appropriately, not enough detail so future researchers won't be able to replicate the study,

]]> 2019-03-27 09:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345609091 georgia_niolaki https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345616099 Amazing posts please continue your contribution and reading your peers' suggestions :) Many thanks Georgia Niolaki]]> 2019-03-27 10:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345616099 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345635873 It's not a effective programme because there was no control group, the results could be contribute to external factors]]> 2019-03-27 11:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345635873 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345635924 Q1 - there was no random allocation to groups, the experimenter got to choose who was in each group and so the study can be criticised for being subject to researcher bias ]]> 2019-03-27 11:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345635924 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345637548 Can't be cured - role of genetics?]]> 2019-03-27 11:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345637548 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345637733 Can't be cured - role of genetics?]]> 2019-03-27 11:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/345637733 georgia_niolaki https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346037209 Continue with your great posts! Thank you Georgia]]> 2019-03-28 09:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346037209 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346500180 Q1) Dore is not an effective programme for dyslexia treatment because it suggests that the basis of dyslexia is cerebellar deficit involving balance and automatisation of motor skills. However, it may just be an associated feature not the fundamental cause. Also, looking at the study, we can see that the data on literacy tests did not provide convincing evidence for the efficacy of the Dore Programme; gains were common in the control group as well as in the trained group, presumably reflecting practice effects. The only literacy test showing a significantly larger gain in the treated group was a word reading test (‘one minute reading’), on which the treated group had a lower score to start with and so more room for improvement.

]]> 2019-03-29 11:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346500180 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346500415 Q2. Children with better motor competence also have higher levels of academic achievement and PA. Higher levels of motor competence may enable children to engage in higher levels of PA which in turn, result in improved cognitive performance and academic achievement. Haapala et al (2017) noted children ages 6-8 year old with higher PA and lower levels of sedentary time had higher scores for reading fluency and reading comprehension compared to children with lower levels of PA or higher levels of sedentary time. ]]> 2019-03-29 11:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346500415 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346500512 Q1) No credible evidence of significant gains in literacy development, cannot conclusively prove that cerebellar abnormalities are the cause of dyslexia, no evidence that motor training enhances development of non-motor skills, selected based on their ‘risk’ to develop dyslexia, misleading mathematical calculations to conclude improvement, did not include the control data which showed improvements regardless of the intervention.]]> 2019-03-29 11:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346500512 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346501141 Q1: There isn’t any evidence to support the idea that dyslexia is caused by cerebellum dysfunction. There is no link between DORE and improvement in the symptoms of dyslexia. There also was bias in the recruitment of participants with the majority of them not having dyslexia in the first place.]]> 2019-03-29 11:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346501141 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346501571 Q2: It suggests that it can only improve the symptoms of dyslexia not cure it. There is also no evidence to support that the cerebellum development is what causes dyslexia. An exercise based treatment programme has been shown to improve literacy skills but not act as a cure.]]> 2019-03-29 11:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346501571 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346502200 Question 2- Those who have dyslexia do not show any motor or balance issues, therefore the programme for exercise-based treatment would not be suitable because it may not make any difference to the condition.]]> 2019-03-29 11:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346502200 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346502753 Q3: An intervention should address the difference in general ability and literacy skills and a control group should also be used to ensure that there were no other factors that affected the improvements. Groups should be randomised and tests should be validated rather than just screened.]]> 2019-03-29 11:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346502753 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346540239 Q1
1 participants was not randomly allocated and this may advantaged Dore treatment.

2 progress was measured with screening tools rather than well validated tests.

3 many children's condition was not as sayed as having reading difficulties.

4 No control group.

]]> 2019-03-29 13:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346540239 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346540847 Q1: there could have been research bias in the study as recruitment included only one ADHD diagnosis and only a handful of specific learning difficulties. ]]> 2019-03-29 13:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346540847 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346541187 Q1: Dore is not an effective program in treating Dyslexia as researchers showed that all the results posted by Dore were modified and altered in order to prove that it actually works. The tests were made up as the randomization process was inexistent and also it was proven that the majority of participants were not affected by dyslexia, in fact some of them were 22 month ahead their reading schedule.]]> 2019-03-29 13:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346541187 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346545340 Q2: Duncan et al 2019 suggests that even though it was found in post-mortem and imaging studies that some patients of dyslexia may have the cerebellum undeveloped, it is not the cause of dyslexia. The patients did not have locomotor problems and were able to maintain their balance. It was proven that the cerebellum can be modified in order to improve the state of the patient given by the lack of writing and studying.

]]> 2019-03-29 13:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346545340 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346547918 Q3: The author suggest that in order to see remarkable results, true tests with random allocation and control groups should be taken in consideration as well tests that are measuring the literacy progress of the child and not threading, balancing or fast naming.

]]> 2019-03-29 13:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346547918 https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346548515 Q2: I think an exercise-based treatment programme can not cure dyslexia because individuals who have dyslexia do not show signs of motor impaired issues however their is contradictory research that says otherwise. According to john et al. (2003) the benefits of the DDAT exercise treatment transferred significantly to cognitive skills underlying literacy, to the reading process, and to standardized national literacy attainment tests. ]]> 2019-03-29 13:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/georgia_niolaki/l2827qd8v6tp/wish/346548515