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:: Volume 23, Issue 3 (8-2014) ::
aud 2014, 23(3): 46-56 Back to browse issues page
The effectiveness of computerized cognitive training on the working memory performance of children with dyslexia
Mohsen Shokoohi-Yekta1 , Salahadin Lotfi * 1, Reza Rostami1 , Ali Akbar Arjmandnia1 , Negin Motamed-Yeganeh1 , Ali Sharifi1
1- Department of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Iran
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Background and Aim: Auditory and visual processing along with phonological and visual spatial working memory are the problems that patients with dyslexia struggle with. So, the aim of this project was to investigate the effectiveness of computerized cognitive training on the working memory performance of children with dyslexia.

Methods: The study conducted under the quasi-experimental method with pre- and post-test along with the control group. 25 children with dyslexia aged 7 to 12 years in grades 1-5 assigned to the experimental (15) and control (10) groups the experimental group received 30 sessions of the Brain Ware Safari intervention program. NAMA scale and Working Memory Test Battery for Children (WMTB-C) were conducted to assess reading and working memory performance of the subjects. MANCOVA, ANCOVA and effect sizes were utilized to analyze the data.

Results: There were significant differences between pre- and post-tests of the experimental and control groups on the forward and backward block recall subtests of WMTB-C and not the mazes memory. Regarding the subscales of NAMA scale, we found no significant differences in the reading performance but analysis of effect sizes showed positive effects at least on the 6 subscales.

Conclusion: The Brain Ware Safari computerized cognitive training can improve visual spatial working memory of children with dyslexia and probably may affect the reading performance.

Keywords: Cognitive training, working memory, learning disorder, dyslexia
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Received: 2013/06/22 | Accepted: 2013/09/18 | Published: 2014/02/19
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