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Effects of short-term memory therapy using spoken stimuli and reading stories in children who do not understand what they read

Not Applicable
Conditions
Dyslexia.
F02.463.188.357
F01.525.200.310.250
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F02.463.188
Comprehension
Child Language
Memory, Short-Term
Cognition
C10.597.606.150.500.300
Registration Number
RBR-53ds9z
Lead Sponsor
Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulos
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Data analysis completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

age between 8 and 10 years and 11 months; attending the fourth or fifth year of elementary school; not having speech therapy because of difficulties in reading, writing and speaking; have no syndromes or hearing or visual loss.

Exclusion Criteria

percentage greater than 25% of absences during the 15 days of therapy (intervention meetings); not carry out the activities during the meetings.

Study & Design

Study Type
Intervention
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Children who participated in the intervention based on shared reading of stories as well as those who participated in the training in working memory presented a statistically superior performance in the comprehension of sentences written in the post workout (comparison of each group before and after treatment);<br><br>Data collected through standardized instruments for the Brazilian population. These were applied before and after the 15 intervention meetings;<br><br>P-value and mean score in the pre and post-sentence sentence comprehension test: history intervention group (pre: 25 points, post: 33 points, p-value: 0.0001); intervention group in working memory (pre: 28 points, post: 34 points, p-value: 0.0001); control group (pre: 36 points, post: 36 points, p-value: 0.1);
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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