Video Games May Aid Children With Dyslexia

I recently read an article called Video Games May Aid Children With Dyslexia. This article is about how playing action games may help dyslexic students with reading. They did a small study with two groups. One group played action video games for nine sessions of eighty minutes. The other group played video games, but they played non action video games. In the beginning of the study the two groups IQ's, ages, reading speeds, error rates, phonological skills were similar. The researchers measured the reading and attention skills of the children before and after game session. Then they compared them. The group that was playing the action video games scored a significant higher score than those that played the non action video games. Their various measures, such as, combined speed and accuracy, recognizing pseudo-words made of random letters, and reaction time were similar. The group that played action video games scored higher scores on tests that measured attention by inserting distractions as the children tried to finish various visual and auditory tasks. “The correlation between attention improvement and reading improvement was very high,” said the co-first author of the study, Simone Gori, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Padua. “The change in attentional abilities translates into better reading ability.” When I read the title of this article, I didn't think playing video games would actually work. I think its cool that studies actually found things that actually work with dyslexia people. I hope everyone gets the chance to read this. If you know someone that has dyslexia, tell them about this and see if it helps them. What do you guys think about this article?