An intensive 8-week reading intervention in children with reading difficulties changed white matter integrity in reading-related tracts, coupled to improved reading skill¶

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q2 i? In a reviewed longitudinal intervention study, white matter integrity change in the left arcuate fasciculus and inferior longitudinal fasciculus was coupled to improved reading skill in children who received an 8-week reading intervention. → van Duijvenvoorde 2022

Evidence¶

van Duijvenvoorde 2022¶

van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., Whitmore, L. B., Westhoff, B. & Mills, K. L. (2022). A methodological perspective on learning in the developing brain. npj Science of Learning 7:12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-022-00127-w

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The review reports a longitudinal intervention study that measured white matter integrity four times across an intensive 8-week reading intervention in children recruited via parent reports of reading difficulties or dyslexia, compared with age-matched controls. The review attributes this finding to Huber et al., noting "coupled to improved reading skill level in the children who received the intervention".

"This study identified the left arcuate fasciculus and inferior longitudinal fasciculus as being responsive to the experience-dependent learning in the cognitive domain of reading, as the observed change in integrity of these white matter paths was coupled to improved reading skill level in the children who received the intervention"

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