A Multisensory Music Intervention for Children With Reading Disorders (RitMoZ)

Research Centre for Natural Sciences

Status

Completed

Conditions

Reading Disorder

Treatments

Behavioral: Music Training (RitMoZ Training)

Behavioral: Spelling Training

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05137353

H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 813546 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Neo-Prism-C ESR-10 project

Details and patient eligibility

About

With this study, we wish to test how effective/ beneficial music activities can be for children with dyslexia.

Full description

Studies have shown that music in the form of training (i.e., intervention) is able to facilitate linguistic processes (e.g., phonological encoding/decoding, categorical perception) and cognitive functions (e.g., working memory) in children that have dyslexia or reading difficulties. In addition to this, music trainings with a focus on entrainment can improve phonological as well as reading skills.

In line with the above, we have designed and developed a music training programme. This programme, which is called RitMoZ Training (i.e., from Ritmus és Mozgás és Zene: meaning Rhythm and Movement and Music in Hungarian language), is designed for (Hungarian) children who have dyslexia or reading difficulties.

In order to assess the efficacy of the music training, we are going to conduct a randomized controlled trial which consists of a pre-training phase, a training phase and a post-training phase.

Enrollment

51 patients

Sex

All

Ages

8 to 12 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

diagnosis of reading disorder
Hungarian as native language

Exclusion criteria

comorbidities (e.g., Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD))
sensory impairment (e.g., hearing loss, low vision)
cognitive impairment (e.g., panic disorder, low IQ)