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Reading Intervention for Dyslexia

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Recruiting

Research Sponsored by McGill University

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be younger than 18 years old

Must not have

Have Epilepsy

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 10 weeks after baseline

Awards & highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

Summary

This trial will study whether a reading intervention can help improve brain function and reading ability in students with dyslexia.

Who is the study for?

This trial is for young students who have been diagnosed with dyslexia by school psychologists or psychiatrists. It's not open to those who also have ADHD, Autism, or Epilepsy.

What is being tested?

The study is testing a reading intervention called 'Set For Variability' against current best practices to see if there are positive changes in brain activity and reading skills in students with dyslexia.

What are the potential side effects?

Since this trial involves educational and behavioral interventions rather than medications, traditional side effects are not expected. However, participants may experience fatigue or frustration during the learning process.

Eligibility Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

You may be eligible for the trial if you check “No” for criteria below:

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I have epilepsy.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 10 weeks after baseline

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~10 weeks after baseline

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 10 weeks after baseline for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Study objectives can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary study objectives

Physiological parameter using EEG

Secondary study objectives

Standardized reading measures

Awards & Highlights

No Placebo-Only Group

All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: Set for VariabilityExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

Students in the experimental group will receive an average of 10-12 hrs. of small group intervention. All lessons will include (i) a focus on blending and segmenting phonemes within a synthetic phonics model, (ii) teaching common, vocabulary words (iii)shared book reading, and (iv) Set-for-variability component (SfV). This component will focus on teaching students how to find the sound variation of a grapheme-phoneme rule. For example when to use the sound /k/in /ch/ to read words such as "stomach"

Group II: Current best practicesActive Control1 Intervention

The control group will receive current-best practices (CBP). The participants will receive a similar approach as in the intervention group without Set-for-Variability. The participants will receive (i) a focus on blending and segmenting phonemes within a synthetic phonics model, (ii) vocabulary, (iii) shared book reading, and (iv) the absence of teaching Set-for-Variability. Instead of Set-for-variability, the participants will receive sight word reading of frequent words. They will learn the most frequent pronunciation of vowels: ee, ea, oo, ou, oa, ai, ay

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