TY - JOUR
T1 - Individual cognitive training of reading disability improves word identification and sentence comprehension in adults with mild mental retardation
AU - Cohen, David
AU - Plaza, Monique
AU - Perez-Diaz, Fernando
AU - Lanthier, Odile
AU - Chauvin, Dominique
AU - Hambourg, Nicole
AU - Wilson, Anna J.
AU - Basquin, Michel
AU - Mazet, Philippe
AU - Rivière, Jean Philippe
N1 - Funding Information:
The study was funded by a grant from the French Ministry of Health (Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique AOM 98098). The authors thank the Fondation Leopold Bellan for its encouragement; F. Tchapla and A. Serand for technical assistance during the remediation program; L. Chatelet and S. Laumelle for their contributions to the IQ testing; and all the participants for their co-operation throughout the study.
PY - 2006/9
Y1 - 2006/9
N2 - Reading therapy has been shown to be effective in treating reading disabilities (RD) in dyslexic children, but little is known of its use in subjects with mild mental retardation (MR). Twenty adult volunteers, with both RD and mild MR, underwent 60 consecutive weeks in a cognitive remediation program, and were compared with 32 untreated control subjects. The experimental group showed a significant improvement in word identification, as measured by oral production (p = 0.0004) or silent reading (p = 0.023), and sentence comprehension (p = 0.0002). Adults with MR appear to benefit from new approaches in the field of RD.
AB - Reading therapy has been shown to be effective in treating reading disabilities (RD) in dyslexic children, but little is known of its use in subjects with mild mental retardation (MR). Twenty adult volunteers, with both RD and mild MR, underwent 60 consecutive weeks in a cognitive remediation program, and were compared with 32 untreated control subjects. The experimental group showed a significant improvement in word identification, as measured by oral production (p = 0.0004) or silent reading (p = 0.023), and sentence comprehension (p = 0.0002). Adults with MR appear to benefit from new approaches in the field of RD.
KW - Cognitive remediation
KW - Mild mental retardation
KW - Reading disability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ridd.2004.07.008
DO - 10.1016/j.ridd.2004.07.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 16198084
AN - SCOPUS:33748572659
SN - 0891-4222
VL - 27
SP - 501
EP - 516
JO - Research in Developmental Disabilities
JF - Research in Developmental Disabilities
IS - 5
ER -