Comprehensive Program to Improve Reading and Writing Skills in At-Risk and Dyslexic Children
NCT ID: NCT00061412
Last Updated: 2006-09-28
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
2500 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
1995-12-31
2005-11-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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During Year 1, at-risk readers in first grade were targeted for an intervention for mapping spoken words onto written words. These students were compared to a control group. During Year 2, the faster responders (those who reached grade level) and the slower responders (those who were not yet at grade level) from Year 1 were compared. Slower responders received additional treatment and comparisons were made again at the end of the year. The additional treatment was also studied in Spanish-speaking students in first grade. During Year 3, another group of at-risk, poor readers in second grade were randomized to either word decoding treatment, comprehension treatment, a combined word decoding and comprehension treatment, or a control treatment.
During Year 4, readers at risk for failing state standards in reading (decoding) participated in an extended day program providing comprehensive reading instruction. The students were compared to a control group. During Year 5, all students grades 4 to 9 took a battery of morphological, reading, and writing tests. The testing was administered throughout an entire school system.
During Year 6, older students with dyslexia were randomly assigned to phonological or morphological reading training. Students were then compared on pre- and post-test behavioral measures and brain activation results. During Year 7, students with dyslexia were randomly assigned to an orthographic or morphological treatment for spelling. Students underwent brain imaging before and after the intervention. Behavioral and brain activation measures were also assessed. During Year 8, students with dyslexia underwent attention or fluency training and writing training with and without attentional bridges. Only behavioral measures were collected.
Recruitment of families for the family genetics study is ongoing. Recruitment for the brain imaging-treatment studies will begin in 2004 when installation of new brain imaging equipment is complete.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
FACTORIAL
TREATMENT
SINGLE
Interventions
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Comprehensive program to improve reading and writing skills
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Underachieving in reading and writing
* English as first language
Exclusion Criteria
* Developmental disability such as autism or pervasive developmental disorder
* Brain damage or disease affecting brain function
* Severe language or psychiatric disorder
6 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
NIH
Principal Investigators
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Virginia Berninger, Ph.D.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Washington
Locations
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University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Countries
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References
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Eckert MA, Leonard CM, Richards TL, Aylward EH, Thomson J, Berninger VW. Anatomical correlates of dyslexia: frontal and cerebellar findings. Brain. 2003 Feb;126(Pt 2):482-94. doi: 10.1093/brain/awg026.
Richards TL, Berninger VW, Aylward EH, Richards AL, Thomson JB, Nagy WE, Carlisle JF, Dager SR, Abbott RD. Reproducibility of proton MR spectroscopic imaging (PEPSI): comparison of dyslexic and normal-reading children and effects of treatment on brain lactate levels during language tasks. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2002 Nov-Dec;23(10):1678-85.
Hsu L, Wijsman EM, Berninger VW, Thomson JB, Raskind WH. Familial aggregation of dyslexia phenotypes. II: paired correlated measures. Am J Med Genet. 2002 May 8;114(4):471-8. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.10523.
Corina DP, Richards TL, Serafini S, Richards AL, Steury K, Abbott RD, Echelard DR, Maravilla KR, Berninger VW. fMRI auditory language differences between dyslexic and able reading children. Neuroreport. 2001 May 8;12(6):1195-201. doi: 10.1097/00001756-200105080-00029.
Berninger VW, Abbott RD, Brooksher R, Lemos Z, Ogier S, Zook D, Mostafapour E. A connectionist approach to making the predictability of English orthography explicit to at-risk beginning readers: evidence for alternative, effective strategies. Dev Neuropsychol. 2000;17(2):241-71. doi: 10.1207/S15326942DN1702_06.
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Other Identifiers
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2P50HD33812-6
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id