Parents for Family 6/2002
If a child refuses to learn to read, it usually has little to do with laziness or stupidity. It has more to do with causes that are difficult to discover. The Institute for Social Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the University of Munich has therefore developed a special PC programme for children with reading difficulties. A diagnostic programme is first used to search for the individual disorder. Once this has been found, the computer-assisted therapy programme can help, for example, to normalise the often excessive jumps in gaze and reading (the word “saltwater” becomes “salser”, for example). For some children, just a few hours of therapy lead to success, for others you have to be patient for a few months.
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