A Multisensory Music Intervention for Children With Reading Disorders (RitMoZ)

Reading Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

RitMoZ Training: A Randomized Control Trial Study to Assess a Multisensory Music Intervention for Children With Reading Disorders in Hungary

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05137353
• Other study ID #: Neo-Prism-C ESR-10 project
• Secondary ID: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 15, 2021
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: October 2022
• Source: Research Centre for Natural Sciences
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

With this study, we wish to test how effective/ beneficial music activities can be for children with dyslexia.

Description:

Studies have shown that music in the form of training (i.e., intervention) is able to facilitate linguistic processes (e.g., phonological encoding/decoding, categorical perception) and cognitive functions (e.g., working memory) in children that have dyslexia or reading difficulties. In addition to this, music trainings with a focus on entrainment can improve phonological as well as reading skills.

In line with the above, we have designed and developed a music training programme. This programme, which is called RitMoZ Training (i.e., from Ritmus és Mozgás és Zene: meaning Rhythm and Movement and Music in Hungarian language), is designed for (Hungarian) children who have dyslexia or reading difficulties.

In order to assess the efficacy of the music training, we are going to conduct a randomized controlled trial which consists of a pre-training phase, a training phase and a post-training phase.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 51
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: June 30, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 8 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• diagnosis of reading disorder

• Hungarian as native language

Exclusion Criteria:

• comorbidities (e.g., Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD))

• sensory impairment (e.g., hearing loss, low vision)

• cognitive impairment (e.g., panic disorder, low IQ)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Disease
• Dyslexia
• Reading Disorder

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Music Training (RitMoZ Training)
This training is inspired by intervention concepts followed in SUVAG Polyclinic in Zagreb, Croatia and Kodaly pedagogy in Hungary. RitMoZ Training programme consists of 6 main activities: matching activity, nursery rhymes, rhythmic stimulations, music shapes, music writing and music reading. The training focuses on the perceptual overlap between language and music, embodiment and entrainment. The aim of the training is to improve characteristic features of reading disorders such as phonological awareness, perception of rhythm, phonological working memory and perception of speech sounds.
• Spelling Training
This training consists of activities which focus on practicing spelling words in a computer task; the aim is to train orthographic processing which is suggested to improve phonological awareness and phonological working memory.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Hungary	Research Centre for Natural Sciences	Budapest

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Research Centre for Natural Sciences	University of Rijeka

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Hungary, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Reading test	For the assessment of the ability to read aloud series of high frequency words, low frequency words and pseudowords, is applied from the shortened 3DM-H (Differential Diagnostics of Dyslexia Maastricht - Hungarian adaptation). With this test, reading speed, fluency and accuracy and pseudoword accuracy are measured.	4 minutes
Primary	Spelling test	For the assessment of spelling, the present subtest is applied from the shortened version of the 3DM-H. Both spelling accuracy and reaction time are measured.	4-7 minutes
Primary	Phoneme deletion test	For the assessment of phoneme deletion, the present subtest is applied from the shortened version of the 3DM-H. Both accuracy and reaction time are measured.	3-7 minutes
Primary	Letter-sound identification test	For the assessment of letter-sound identification, the present subtest is applied from the shortened version of the 3DM-H. Both accuracy and reaction time are measured.	2-3 minutes
Primary	Letter-sound discrimination test	For the assessment of letter-sound discrimination, the present subtest is applied from the shortened version of the 3DM-H. Both accuracy and reaction time are measured.	2 - 4 minutes
Primary	Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) test	To assess rapid naming of letters, digits and objects, the present subtest is applied from the shortened version of the 3DM-H. Here, the processing speed is measured.	3-5 minutes
Primary	Choice reaction time test	The present subtest is applied from the shortened version of the 3DM-H; here, the reaction time is measured.	1 - 2 minutes
Primary	Lexical decision task	To assess lexical decision, the present test is applied. Here, accuracy is measured.	12- 15 minutes
Primary	Auditory discrimination of acoustic and phonetic alteration of pseudowords	This is an Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) task where a speech multifeature paradigm is applied. In the current task, the amplitudes of the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) responses - which are elicited in certain time windows - are measured in every condition.	20 minutes

External Links

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