The participants consisted of 6 musicians ranging 13 to 15 years old who are a freshman or sophomore in high school. Music directors from the same school district were asked to choose musicians who shared similar musical skill level and who had previously been tested and diagnosed with dyslexia as potential participants for the experiment. Consistent with federal and state guidelines, the possible participants have all previously undergone the standardized aptitude, achievement tests, criterion-referenced tests, curriculum based capacity and direct and daily measurement to determine if they were mildly or severely dyslexic like those in the Menacker et al. (1993). In addition to dyslexia being present, all participants had to be able to read
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The musical piece was rated as a 2, which means it is at a moderate skill level and appropriate for the abilities the participants share. Generally, sight reading pieces are measured 1 as easy, 2 as moderate and 3 as difficult. Each participant will receive the excerpt written for their personal musical instrument that they play. For example, flutists will receive the excerpts written for flutes, clarinet players will receive the excerpt written for clarinets and trumpet players will receive the excerpts written for trumpets, and so forth. In addition, each excerpt consisted of 10 measures and each excerpt of 10 will be prepared on their own separate page from the next set of 10 measures from the musical …show more content…
(1998) technique using overlays, three plastic transparencies, or overlays, are prepared for the participants to use. For example, one will be clear, one strongly tinted with blue and one slightly tented with blue. Only blue overlays will be used opposed to other colors like red, green and yellow overlays have shown little success and will not be tested in this experiment based on results from Iovino et al. (1998). Transparency overlays have shown promising results compared to lenses worn by previous participants like in the Hall et al. (2013). Thus, clear, and two different tints of blue overlays will be used in the present
The musical piece was rated as a 2, which means it is at a moderate skill level and appropriate for the abilities the participants share. Generally, sight reading pieces are measured 1 as easy, 2 as moderate and 3 as difficult. Each participant will receive the excerpt written for their personal musical instrument that they play. For example, flutists will receive the excerpts written for flutes, clarinet players will receive the excerpt written for clarinets and trumpet players will receive the excerpts written for trumpets, and so forth. In addition, each excerpt consisted of 10 measures and each excerpt of 10 will be prepared on their own separate page from the next set of 10 measures from the musical …show more content…
(1998) technique using overlays, three plastic transparencies, or overlays, are prepared for the participants to use. For example, one will be clear, one strongly tinted with blue and one slightly tented with blue. Only blue overlays will be used opposed to other colors like red, green and yellow overlays have shown little success and will not be tested in this experiment based on results from Iovino et al. (1998). Transparency overlays have shown promising results compared to lenses worn by previous participants like in the Hall et al. (2013). Thus, clear, and two different tints of blue overlays will be used in the present