Assessing the Generalizability of the Tachidino Protocol to Different Clinical Contexts

Launched by IRCCS EUGENIO MEDEA · May 8, 2020

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ClinConnect Summary

Specifically, the intervention system based on the web platform "Tachidino" and routinely used for the rehabilitation of reading and spelling disorders at Medea, Lombardy region, would be extended to Marche (precisely, the clinical service connected to Urbino University, located in Pesaro, a coastal town in Central Italy), a different geographical region with different population characteristics. Precisely, the Lombardy region is a highly industrialized region with the highest digitalization rate in Italy, whereas Marche is a more agriculture-oriented region, with lower population density a...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • A formal diagnosis of Developmental Dyslexia, Specific Reading Disorders, or Mixed Scholastic Learning Disorders
• • Age between 7 and 16
• • Attending at least the third class of primary school
• • Monolingual speakers of Italian or bilingual speakers with perfect mastery of the Italian language (equivalent to monolinguals)
• • Intelligence Quotient (IQ) \>= 80
• • At least one z-score below -2 Standard Deviations from age mean in at least one of the following tests: text reading, word reading, nonword reading ("DDE-2" battery, "MT" tests)
• • Not having received any specific rehabilitation treatment for dyslexia before
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Intellectual disability
• • Neurological disorders
• • Sensory deficits that are not /cannot be corrected-to-normal by lenses or hearing aids.