Telerehabilitation vs. in Presence Rehabilitation of Reading Disorders Using the Rhythmic Reading Training (RRT)

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Developmental Dyslexia

Treatments: Behavioral: In presence RRT - prototype software; Behavioral: Tele-RRT - prototype software; Behavioral: In presence RRT - online platform; Behavioral: Tele-RRT - online platform

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04995471

RRT vs. RRTT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to compare the effectiveness of telerehabilitation vs. in presence rehabilitation of reading disorders, using a rhythm-based intervention for reading (i.e., Rhythmic Reading Training)

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 15 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• having been diagnosed with DD (ICD-10 code: F81.0) on the basis of standard inclusion and exclusion criteria (ICD-10: World Health Organization, 1992) and of the diagnosis procedure followed in the Italian practice

Exclusion criteria

• presence of comorbidity with other neuropsychiatric or psychopathological conditions
• having been involved in previous reading intervention programs in the previous 3 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 5 patient groups

In presence RRT - prototype software

Experimental group

Description:

10 biweekly in presence sessions of 45 minutes supervised by a trainer

Treatment:

Behavioral: In presence RRT - prototype software

In presence RRT - online platform

Experimental group

Description:

10 biweekly in presence sessions of 45 minutes supervised by a trainer

Treatment:

Behavioral: In presence RRT - online platform

Tele-RRT - prototype software

Experimental group

Description:

10 biweekly telerehabilitation sessions of 45 minutes supervised by a trainer

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tele-RRT - prototype software

Tele-RRT - online platform

Experimental group

Description:

10 biweekly telerehabilitation sessions of 45 minutes supervised by a trainer

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tele-RRT - online platform

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

5 weeks no intervention period