Treatment effects of Fast ForWord demonstrated by magnetoencephalography (MEG) in a child with developmental dyslexia.
Treatment effects of Fast ForWord, hypothesized to ameliorate temporal processing deficits, were demonstrated by magnetoencephalography in a child with dyslexia using four paradigms: Word/Non-word Reading (NW), Grapheme-to-Phoneme Matching (GP), Verbal, and Spatial Working Memory (VWM, SWM). Shifts in brain activation from right inferior frontal and temporal to left frontal, bilateral supramarginal, and transverse temporal regions occurred during GP. During NW, shifts progressed from (1) right or bilateral anterior and superior to (2) left, inferior frontal, to (3) left, superior posterior temporoparietal, to (4) left, inferior, posterior temporooccipital regions. Reading and written language improvements were noted in passage comprehension and spelling.
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Department of Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA. rlajines@emich.edu
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D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D001288:Attention; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007808:Language Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D015225:Magnetoencephalography; D013067:Speech Perception; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome