Trial reportPloS one2015
Music Training Increases Phonological Awareness and Reading Skills in Developmental Dyslexia: A Randomized Control Trial.
Trial report in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02316873 (Rhythm and Music to Rehabilitate Reading Disorders), which is not on this map. Cited by 88 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Rhythm and Music to Rehabilitate Reading Disorders
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88 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The efficacy of rhythmic training for enhancing language and reading skills in children: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Dyslexia treatment studies: A systematic review and suggestions on testing treatment efficacy with small effects and small samples.Behavior research methods · 2021Pooled it
- Music Therapy for Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorder and/or Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- A Randomized Proof-of-Concept Study of Gamified Rhythmic Training in Autistic Children.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Trial
- Rhythm training improves word-reading in children with dyslexia.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Effects of broadband music and audible band music on relaxation states and cognitive function in young adults: a randomized controlled trial.European journal of medical research · 2024Trial
- Cognitive enrichment through art: a randomized controlled trial on the effect of music or visual arts group practice on cognitive and brain development of young children.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Trial
- Musical Competence is Predicted by Music Training, Cognitive Abilities, and Personality.Scientific reports · 2018Trial
- When Development Falls out of Sync: A Developmental Timing Framework for Learning Disabilities.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Stability in Reading Improvement After Home-Based Multi-Componential Training for Children with Developmental Dyslexia.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Rhythm Processing Across Development: Origins, Links to Language Processing, and Perspectives for Intervention.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Music participation, global cortical morphometry, and later language outcomes in the ABCD study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Impact of Education and Music Training on the Development of Abstract Thinking in the First Years of Schooling.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
- Studying the effects of digital arts-based interventions on teenagers' social media usage, brain connectivity, and mental health: study protocol of the SMART project.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Neural Discrimination of Temporal Patterns-Associations to Dyslexia Risk, Language Abilities, and Music Activities.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Children's Improvement After Language and Rhythm Training With the Digital Medical Device Poppins for Dyslexia: Single-Arm Intervention Study.JMIR serious games · 2025Article
- Music and Language in Williams Syndrome: An Integrative and Systematic Mini-Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Assessing the Noninferiority of a Rhythm and Language Training Serious Game Combined With Speech Therapy Versus Speech Therapy Care for Children With Dyslexia: Protocol for an Investigator-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Moving rhythmically can facilitate naturalistic speech perception in a noisy environment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The phoenix of phonaesthetics: the rise of an old-new research paradigm on the beauty of language sound.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
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Abstract
There is some evidence for a role of music training in boosting phonological awareness, word segmentation, working memory, as well as reading abilities in children with typical development. Poor performance in tasks requiring temporal processing, rhythm perception and sensorimotor synchronization seems to be a crucial factor underlying dyslexia in children. Interestingly, children with dyslexia show deficits in temporal processing, both in language and in music. Within this framework, we test the hypothesis that music training, by improving temporal processing and rhythm abilities, improves phonological awareness and reading skills in children with dyslexia. The study is a prospective, multicenter, open randomized controlled trial, consisting of test, rehabilitation and re-test (ID NCT02316873). After rehabilitation, the music group (N = 24) performed better than the control group (N = 22) in tasks assessing rhythmic abilities, phonological awareness and reading skills. This is the first randomized control trial testing the effect of music training in enhancing phonological and reading abilities in children with dyslexia. The findings show that music training can modify reading and phonological abilities even when these skills are severely impaired. Through the enhancement of temporal processing and rhythmic skills, music might become an important tool in both remediation and early intervention programs.Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02316873
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