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Hemisphere-Specific Treatment of Dyslexia SubtypesBetter Reading with Anxiety-laden Words?Jan W. Van Strien, PhD, teaches clinical neuropsychology at Free University, Amsterdam. His research interests include dyslexia and currently focus on the relationship between hemispheric laterality and emotions.
Brigitte D. Stolk is currently a student in child neuropsychology and clinical neuropsychology at Free University, Amsterdam.
Sandra Zuiker, MA, is a child neuropsychologist. Address: Jan W. Van Strien, Free University, Faculty of Psychology, De Boelelaan 1109, Provisorium 1, C-141, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Twenty children (12 boys, 8 girls; mean age = 10.4 years) with P-type dyslexia (accurate but slow and fragmented reading) and 20 children (12 boys, 8 girls; mean age = 10.3 years) with L-type dyslexia (hurried, inaccurate reading) were treated with visual hemisphere-specific stimulation employing the HEMSTIM computer program. Stimulation was produced by presenting words to the left (L-dyslexia) or to the right (P-dyslexia) visual field. Children in the control condition received treatment with neutral words, whereas children in the experimental condition received treatment with anxiety-laden words. After treatment, the children with L-dyslexia in the experimental group made fewer substantive errors and more fragmentations on a text-reading task than did the children with L-dyslexia in the control group. The results are explained as being the consequence of additional activation of the right hemisphere caused by the anxiety-laden words. It is concluded that children with L-dyslexia can benefit from the use of such words in the HEMSTIM program.
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 28, No. 1,
30-34 (1995) This article has been cited by other articles:
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