How does the therapy work?

The therapy proceeds in two directions:

1. Learning the correct reading strategy

First of all, the child learns a reading strategy with which it can quickly learn to circumvent its performance weakness and read correctly despite this performance weakness. If, for example, the cause of the reading disorder is that a child can only read word segments of 3 letters in length, he or she learns to divide the text into segments of 3 letters and to only glance over segments of 3 letters in length.

If a child needs 2 seconds to recall the sequence of sounds associated with a word segment seen and one cause of the reading disorder is that the child does not keep to this time but jumps to the next word segment too soon, the programme helps the child to learn to pronounce the word segment seen only after 2 seconds and only then to jump to the next word segment with the eyes..

2. Reduce performance weaknesses through systematic training

At the same time, the software helps to reduce performance weaknesses through systematic training.

Example:

If a child can only read word segments of 3 letters in length, he or she can practise using the programme to recognise segments of 4 letters in small steps and, once this level has been reached, longer segments.

Small learning units

Small learning units of around 15 minutes are very important for concentration, memory and weekly continuity. Children are not distracted by multimedia effects – there are deliberately no animations in the programme so that all attention is focused on reading and writing.