Remove Reading Problems So Your Child Excels at Learning

Students in elementary school who have difficulty reading can significantly improve their reading skills in three months by being trained on left-right movement discrimination (Moving To Read (MTR) Therapy that is patented in the US and worldwide) for 5 to 10 minutes once or twice a week, according to a new study funded by Perception Dynamics Institute (PDI). The more a child was trained on MTR therapy, the more reading skills improved. This is the first time any study has found a training method that improves the reading skills of both inefficient and efficient readers.

Del Mar, CA (PRWEB) July 16, 2006 -- Would you like to know the major reason why some children have such difficulty with reading? Discoveries in neurobiology now tell us it’s primarily the result of neural timing deficits in the brain that can be corrected. For these kids poor reading is not a matter of bad teachers, inadequate or poor schools, old textbooks or student motivation. Better teaching, harder work and other traditional strategies will not work unless this timing issue is addressed.

Students in elementary school who have difficulty reading can significantly improve their reading skills in three months by being trained on left-right movement discrimination (Moving To Read (MTR) Therapy that is patented in the US and worldwide) for 5 to 10 minutes once or twice a week, according to a new study funded by Perception Dynamics Institute (PDI). The more a child was trained on MTR therapy, the more reading skills improved. This is the first time any study has found a training method that improves the reading skills of both inefficient and efficient readers.
   
Dr. Teri Lawton, CEO and Research Director of PDI, developed MTR therapy, a clinically proven program that addresses these deficits. This program, administered with the use of a personal computer, provides a comprehensive, rapid, and effective strategy for remediating reading problems that has been used successfully on over 900 students in 7 different public elementary schools over the past several years. It has been so effective that PDI guarantees problem readers will show a one to three grade level improvement after only fifteen weeks using this program as directed.
   
Studies show MTR therapy to be a rapid and effective means for treating children with a wide spectrum of reading difficulties, from ordinary poor reading to Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD and ADHD) and Autism.

The MTR therapy was designed to enhance the “where” motion pathway in the brain — the circuit of neurons that helps readers determine the location of letters of a word and words on a page. Controlled clinical studies show that under-developed motion pathways are related to reading problems in children.

The latest controlled validation study recruited 41 inefficient readers and 65 efficient readers in grades 2-4 from four elementary schools in the Santa Monica-Malibu and Los Angeles Unified School Districts. Using the Dyslexia Screener, developed by Professor John Griffin at Southern California College of Optometry, the students were identified as either “efficient” or “inefficient” readers. Both of these groups were divided into three subgroups. One subgroup received the MTR therapy for 5 to 10 minutes, once or twice a week, for one to six months, varying the number of times the MTR therapy was practiced. A second subgroup (first control group) played another computer game, the word game, one designed to train the “what” visual pathway in the brain, which helps readers determine what type of word is being presented to them. The third subgroup (second control group) received their school’s standard reading program. Some students served as their own controls. All groups also read for over 60 minutes a day in school following training.

“We found that children in grades 2-4 who were trained on left-right movement discrimination transitioned from an inefficient to an efficient reader,” says Lawton. “They improved in their reading speed two to four fold, while the reading speeds of the other two groups of inefficient readers barely increased.” Furthermore, inefficient readers who were trained on MTR therapy also improved over a grade level on both word identification and spelling, whereas those in the control groups barely increased on these reading skills. “These results indicate that training the motion pathways significantly improves most reading skills,” says Lawton. These results extend an earlier controlled clinical validation study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The results of this study are about to appear in the Journal of Optometry and Vision Development. More detailed information about the controlled validation studies can be found at http://www.movingtoread.com.

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