Effects of exercise intervention on reading abilities of children with Chinese developmental dyslexia
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6710.2024.05.007
- VernacularTitle:运动干预对汉语发展性阅读障碍儿童阅读能力的影响
- Author:
Biyao FAN
1
;
Yuanchun REN
;
Yiling SONG
;
Feilong ZHU
;
Fangzhou GENG
;
Rongjie SUN
;
Jiuju WANG
Author Information
1. 北京师范大学体育与运动学院(北京 100875)
- Keywords:
Chinese developmental dyslexia;
exercise intervention;
children;
reading abilities
- From:
Chinese Journal of Sports Medicine
2024;43(5):364-371
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the impact of exercise intervention on the reading abilities of chil-dren with Chinese developmental dyslexia(CDD).Methods Twenty-seven CDD children were recruited from patients of Peking University Sixth Hospital,and randomly divided into a CDD exercise interven-tion group of 14 and a CDD control group of 13.Another 14 age-matched normal children were select-ed into a normal control group.All groups kept daily physical activities in school,while the CDD ex-ercise intervention group additionally underwent 8-week individualized gross and fine motor interven-tion.The literacy,reading fluency and reading comprehension of all groups were evaluated by using"Elementary School Students'Literacy Test and Evaluation Scale",one-minute word reading and ele-mentary school students'reading ability assessment.Results Before the intervention,there were no sig-nificant differences between the exercise intervention and control groups in the literacy level,reading fluency,and reading comprehension(P>0.05),which were all significantly lower than the normal con-trol group(P<0.05).However,after the intervention,significant improvement was observed in the aver-age literacy level,reading fluency,and reading comprehension of the CDD exercise intervention group,and the literacy and reading fluency of the CDD control group,as well as the average literacy level and reading comprehension of the normal control group.Moreover,there were no significant differ-ences between the CDD exercise intervention and control groups in the average literacy level and read-ing fluency score(P>0.05),both significantly lower than the normal control group(P<0.05).Mean-while,the reading comprehension score of the CDD exercise intervention group was significantly higher than the CDD control group(P<0.05),but significantly lower than the normal control group(P<0.05).Conclusion Eight-week targeted gross and fine motor intervention can effectively improve reading abili-ty of DD children,especially their reading comprehension.
