Berwanger D, von Suchodoletz W
Institut und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother. 2004 May;32(2):77-84. doi: 10.1024/1422-4917.32.2.77.
It has been suggested that training in temporal processing may significantly improve language processing and reading skills. However, improvement effects of training on language impairment or dyslexia have not been proven so far. In the present study a temporal processing training was evaluated.
The participants of the present study were 42 children (5th graders) of a special school for children with reading and spelling problems. Children of one class (n = 21) were assigned to a training group (n = 21), the other class to a control group. Children in the training group took part in a training program consisting of auditory and visual order threshold and sound localisation tasks, over a period of eight weeks. We determined the order thresholds, sound localisation ability and reading and spelling performance of all children before and after the training period. Six months later all subjects were re-tested.
Auditory and visual order thresholds decreased significantly more in the training group than in the control group. However, these changes were not accompanied by improvements in reading or spelling skills.
In the present study no training effects on reading and writing performance were observed by using a program including temporal processing tasks. It is questionable whether training programs of temporal processing are useful methods in therapy of dyslexic children.
有人提出，时间处理训练可能会显著提高语言处理和阅读技能。然而，到目前为止，训练对语言障碍或诵读困难的改善效果尚未得到证实。在本研究中，对一种时间处理训练进行了评估。
本研究的参与者是一所针对有阅读和拼写问题儿童的特殊学校的42名五年级儿童。一个班级的儿童（n = 21）被分配到训练组（n = 21），另一个班级为对照组。训练组的儿童参加了一个为期八周的训练项目，该项目包括听觉和视觉顺序阈值以及声音定位任务。我们在训练期前后测定了所有儿童的顺序阈值、声音定位能力以及阅读和拼写表现。六个月后，对所有受试者进行了重新测试。
训练组的听觉和视觉顺序阈值下降幅度明显大于对照组。然而，这些变化并未伴随着阅读或拼写技能的提高。
在本研究中，通过使用包含时间处理任务的项目，未观察到对读写表现的训练效果。时间处理训练项目是否是治疗诵读困难儿童的有效方法值得怀疑。
