[Integral treatment of children with dyslexia--40 years experience]

Srp Arh Celok Lek. 2012 Sep-Oct;140(9-10):625-9. doi: 10.2298/sarh1210625s.
[Article in Serbian]

Abstract

Introduction: Dyslexia represents a significant pediatric problem requiring prompt and appropriate treatment.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the significance of integral rehabilitation approach in treating dyslexia of children.

Methods: Objectives of the study were accomplished on a sample of 300 children, aged 11-15 years, with etiologically variable dyslexia.

Results: The results gained from the integral treatment of children with dyslexia were more successful than those obtained from isolated logaoedic treatment, when compared in 10-15 examined variables; replacement of graphically similar letters (p = 0.000), replacement of syllables (p = 0.010), replacement of words--guessing (p = 0.019), structural errors--displacement or insertion (p = 0.038), adding letters and syllables (p = 0.001), repeating of word parts (p = 0.001), reading of a word in several wrong ways (p = 0.001), omission of words and whole lines (p = 0.000), returning to already read line (p = 0.000), level of dyslexia (p = 0.000).

Conclusion: Dyslexia requires a multidisciplinary therapeutic approach in which integral rehabilitation treatment has an exceptionally large significance.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Dyslexia / therapy*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male