2. Multiple Oral Re-Reading (Moyer, 1979)
Let’s start off by looking at the Multiple Oral Re-Reading treatment, which was first used by Moyer (1979) in a patient with pure dyslexia.
MOR is a text base reading treatment, where patients are instructed to read a passage from Scientific Research Associates Reading Laboratory series (SRA; Parker & Scannell, 1998) aloud during a weekly (?) session with their therapist. The SRA series is divided into 12 levels of text, each which have 12 passages.
Patients are also instructed to complete 30 minutes of reading this passage aloud as homework per day, until they reach a certain criteria of speed rate (usually it is about 100 words/ min), or other criteria, like a certain amount of days or for a certain amount of time spent reading the text. Once the criteria is met, the therapist introduces a new passage.
The theory behind MOR is that by using top-down processing, …show more content…
I have also reviewed these studies and will discuss the results.
Use of the MOR tasks in studies have shown mixed results. Moody (1988) used MOR with 3 patients, 1 was a pure dyslexic, two were phonological. After use of MOR, Moody saw significant improvement in reading speed of novel texts with the pure dyslexic, however showed less improvement in one of the phonological dyslexics and none in the third patient. Beeson and Insalaco (1998) also found success using MOR. Their patient showed a presentation that included features of pure, deep and surface dyslexia. Following treatment with the MOR, she showed impressive improvement in her rate of reading learned and novel texts, while keeping her comprehension stable, and her initial word-length effect deficit had diminished by the end of treatment as well. Thoumainen and Laine (1991) showed improvements in 2 of their 3 pure dyslexic patients in speed of reading trained and novel texts as
Let’s start off by looking at the Multiple Oral Re-Reading treatment, which was first used by Moyer (1979) in a patient with pure dyslexia.
MOR is a text base reading treatment, where patients are instructed to read a passage from Scientific Research Associates Reading Laboratory series (SRA; Parker & Scannell, 1998) aloud during a weekly (?) session with their therapist. The SRA series is divided into 12 levels of text, each which have 12 passages.
Patients are also instructed to complete 30 minutes of reading this passage aloud as homework per day, until they reach a certain criteria of speed rate (usually it is about 100 words/ min), or other criteria, like a certain amount of days or for a certain amount of time spent reading the text. Once the criteria is met, the therapist introduces a new passage.
The theory behind MOR is that by using top-down processing, …show more content…
I have also reviewed these studies and will discuss the results.
Use of the MOR tasks in studies have shown mixed results. Moody (1988) used MOR with 3 patients, 1 was a pure dyslexic, two were phonological. After use of MOR, Moody saw significant improvement in reading speed of novel texts with the pure dyslexic, however showed less improvement in one of the phonological dyslexics and none in the third patient. Beeson and Insalaco (1998) also found success using MOR. Their patient showed a presentation that included features of pure, deep and surface dyslexia. Following treatment with the MOR, she showed impressive improvement in her rate of reading learned and novel texts, while keeping her comprehension stable, and her initial word-length effect deficit had diminished by the end of treatment as well. Thoumainen and Laine (1991) showed improvements in 2 of their 3 pure dyslexic patients in speed of reading trained and novel texts as