Neither speech therapy nor serious non-action video games produced significant phonemic awareness gains in at-risk pre-readers¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? The SNAVG and SPEECH groups showed no significant pre-to-post improvement in phoneme discrimination, unlike the AVG group. → Bertoni 2024

Evidence¶

Bertoni 2024¶

Bertoni, S., Andreola, C., Mascheretti, S., Franceschini, S., Ruffino, M., Trezzi, V., Molteni, M., Sali, M. E., Salandi, A., Gaggi, O., Palazzi, C., Gori, S. & Facoetti, A. (2024). Action video games normalise the phonemic awareness in pre-readers at risk for developmental dyslexia. npj Science of Learning 9, 25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00230-0

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Paired bootstrap t-tests from pre- to post-training within each control group of the four-group prevention design. None of the three control conditions improved significantly on phoneme discrimination.

"while, the WAIT (t-test(10) = 0.001, mean difference = 0.0001, 95% CI = −0.706/0.706, p = 0.971), SNAVG (t-test(13) = −1.394, mean difference = −0.832, 95% CI = −1.895/0.369, p = 0.186) and SPEECH (t-test(10) = −1.423, mean dif-ference =−0.588, 95% CI = −1.353/0.176, p = 0.205) groups did not."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Phonological Awareness — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Action video game training produces significantly larger phonemic awareness gains than waiting list, non-action serious games, and speech therapy in pre-readers at risk for dyslexia — related
• Phonemic awareness gains after AVG training occur in more than 80% of at-risk pre-readers — related
• Phonemic awareness improvements from AVG training are maintained at a 6-month follow-up — related
• AVG training effects are specific to phonemic awareness, with no significant gains in phonological working memory or rapid automatized naming — related