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Mind reading improvements in mentalization-based therapy training

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 2021
The psychological strain of many psychiatric disorders arises from difficulties encountered in social interactions. Social withdrawal is often the first symptom of neuropsychiatric disorders. The authors explore the various options for training social cognition skills. Social cognition was assessed using the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition
Dagmar, Steinmair, Richard, Horn, Felix, Richter, Guoruey, Wong, Henriette, Löffler-Stastka   +4 more
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Perceptual Training and Reading Achievement in Disadvantaged Children

Child Development, 1969
2 groups of second-grade inner-city Negro children were matched for reading achievement and perceptual ability. The experimental group was trained with a series of nonverbal perceptual exercises for one-half hour 3 times a week for a period of 15 weeks.
D, Elkind, J A, Deblinger
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Peripheral Vision Training in Reading Speed and Comprehension

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1975
Of two groups of 8 college students receiving 15.75 hr. of speed reading training, an experimental group was given an additional 2.25 hr. of peripheral vision training. Peripheral vision increased for both groups, but reading speed improved only in the trained group. Reading comprehension scores were not affected.
A L, Sailor, S E, Ball
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Improvement in Reading Achievement Through Perceptual-Motor Training

Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 1968
Abstract Forty-two underachieving grade 1 children matched for age, sex, IQ, and Lee-Clark reading grade level were randomly assigned to one of three groups. One group received perceptual-motor training, the second received exercises from the regular physical education curriculum, and the third group served as a control.
C C, McCormick, J N, Schnobrich, S W, Footlik, B, Poetker   +3 more
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Reading improvement in English- and Hebrew-speaking children with reading difficulties after reading acceleration training

Annals of Dyslexia, 2014
A reading acceleration program known to improve reading fluency in Hebrew-speaking adults was tested for its effect on children. Eighty-nine Hebrew- and English-speaking children with reading difficulties were divided into a waiting list group and two training groups (Hebrew and English) and underwent 4 weeks of reading acceleration training.
Tzipi, Horowitz-Kraus, Nicole, Cicchino, Merav, Amiel, Scott K, Holland, Zvia, Breznitz   +4 more
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Hand Movement Training in Braille Reading

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1981
Twenty-one children ages 6 though 13 were taught to use their hands independently when reading braille to determine how this pattern of hand movements affected reading variables, excluding character recognition. Although all the children learned this pattern of hand movements during the 20 days scheduled for training, only nine children exhibited a ...
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Can vergence training improve reading in dyslexics?

Strabismus, 2014
Dyslexia affects 5%-8% of the population of the Western world. While reading, different eye movements are required. Compared to other persons, dyslexics have more and longer fixations, shorter saccade amplitude, a higher percentage of regression, and more fixation disparity when reading.
Marika Wahlberg, Ramsay, Christina, Davidson, Mari, Ljungblad, Marguerite, Tjärnberg, Rune, Brautaset, Maria, Nilsson   +5 more
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Demotivation in academic reading during teacher training

Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
BackgroundIn this study, we analyse the process of academic reading demotivation in elementary preservice teachers. Academic reading motivation is conceptualised from the Expectancy‐Value Theory, with the respective eponymous dimensions as well as interest, attainment, utility, and cost as subcomponents for task value.MethodsThese motivational ...
Carla Muñoz, Jorge Valenzuela
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Training Reading Skills in Finnish: From Reading Acquisition to Fluency and Comprehension

2016
This chapter outlines the approaches for supporting reading development in Finnish that have been developed on the basis of current knowledge on reading development and reading disabilities in Finnish. We discuss also the challenges that the features of Finnish language and orthography pose for the reader at various points of development.
Aro Mikko, Lyytinen Heikki
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Effect on Reading Comprehension of Training to Automaticity in Word-Reading

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
Automaticity training, aimed at decreasing latencies to read a specific set of words, was given to an experimental group of third-graders. A control group of third-graders was not given this training. Following training, the cloze method was used to test the reading comprehension of texts composed from the training words.
Carl Spring, Dale Blunden, Mary Ann Gatheral   +2 more
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