Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Gelsenkirchen Local Edition
The school counseling center has been offering the computer program “Richtig Lesen Lernen” (Learning to Read Correctly) from the publisher celeco since the beginning of the year. The goal is to treat dyslexia in children in grades three through five.
The first step is to assess the student’s reading skills. For 250 milliseconds, several letters flash on the screen, which the student must identify simultaneously. “To read fluently, a child must be able to recognize at least four letters at once,” says Jörg Michael Thurm, a psychologist at the school counseling center. If this is not the case, the solution is: practice, practice, practice. Students should then spend 15 minutes a day drilling the computer-based exercises with the flashing letters. “By the fourth week, learning success is already evident,” Thurm is certain. The software was developed by Munich-based medical psychologist Reinhard Werth. Diagnosis, counseling, and therapy are free of charge.