The COVID generation: Online dyslexia treatment equally effective as face-to-face treatment in a Dutch sample.
Ann Dyslexia
; 74(2): 187-196, 2024 Jul.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38206491
ABSTRACT
Due to pandemic-induced lockdown(s) in 2020, dyslexia treatment was forced to move to online platforms. This study examined whether Dutch children who received online treatment progressed as much in their reading and spelling performance as children who received the usual face-to-face treatment. To this end, 254 children who received treatment-as-usual were compared to 162 children who received online treatment with Bayesian methods. The advantage of a Bayesian approach is that it can provide evidence for and against the null hypothesis whereas frequentist approaches only provide evidence against it. We found that children in the online treatment condition received slightly fewer treatment sessions but progressed equally after controlling for the number of sessions compared to the treatment-as-usual condition. These results have clinical and practical implications as they show that reading treatment can be successfully delivered online.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Dyslexia
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COVID-19
Limits:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
En
Journal:
Ann Dyslexia
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Países Bajos
Country of publication:
Estados Unidos