Gehirn&Geist, July/August 2008

A new method first analyses the biological cause of children with reading difficulties and then designs an individually tailored treatment programme using a computer. With success: a quarter of an hour’s training reduces reading errors by almost two thirds.

Kevin’s mum was overjoyed: “I’ve been going from one therapy to the next with the boy for three years now and nothing has helped. With you, he reads after just one hour. How can that be?” Quite simply – unlike most dyslexia treatments, the new approach uncovers the psychobiological causes of the reading disorder instead of subjecting the children to a standard treatment across the board …

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Translated by celeco