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Shvoong Home>Writing & Speaking>Copywriting>Easy Ways to Help Children With Difficult Read Summary

Easy Ways to Help Children With Difficult Read

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Jakarta - If you have children who have dyslexia (difficulty reading), there is an easy way to help. Research Carried out in Italy suggests that the distance antarhuruf in a word can increase of the speed and accuracy of reading them

Advances in technology have made it possible in this way made to electronic books, allowing manipulation of text. This was stated by the experts.

Scientists from the University of Padua in Italy the Italian analyzed 34 children and 40 children who have dyslexia French nationality and aged between eight and 14 years. They found that the distance antarhuruf can help these students 20 percent better in the accuracy of reading the text.

"We were surprised by the distance antarhuruf beneficial," says lead researcher, Marco Zorzi, professor of psychology and artificial intelligence, as quoted by Health Day.

"The increase of average in reading speed equivalent to that observed for a year and halve error speaks for itself," said Zorzi. The results were published in the journal PNAS.

Dyslexia is a language-based disability, Caused by difficulty learning to recognize written words. This disorder is estimated to Affect five per cent of school-age children. So say Researchers. Among the forms of dyslexia are children who take a year to read letters or numbers, while others only takes two days.

Manipulation distance (space) based on a phenomenon known as "visual cwording", roomates is more difficult to identify a letter when the position adjacent to and surrounded by other letters. The condition affects people with dyslexia Usually as a base literate in reading.

"It is clear that for the dyslexia, problems (distance antarhuruf) is Becoming more critical. Needed a good distance from the letters in different places and distances for each person is different," said Guinevera Eden, director of the Center for the Study of Learning and professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Technological advances now allow for strategies that have helped people with dyslexia. Among these texts, research and documents that can be obtained for the novel digital or electronic form. "With the technology available today to teach children to read, the information is very important. Many schools with dyslexic children use technology to transform their print books, so that better accommodate these children," said Eden again.
Published: August 25, 2012   
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