Developmental dyslexia(DD) was characterized as a specific learning disability, which struggled and failed to adequately acquire reading ability, despite normal intelligence and adequate educational opportunity and ostensibly intact audition and vision. Deficits of reading will not only bring academic pressure to students, but also cause negative emotional impact on children's psychology, which affects the development of children. DD is a typical learning difficulties and seriously influenced children's learning and life. Therefore, it is vital to correct reading disability. Considering that some researches have found that DD exhibit the deficits of audiovisual integration, it is particularly necessary to explore whether the dyslexic can improve their reading ability through the training of audiovisual integration.Present study explored the role of audiovisual integration training on reading and reading related skills of Chinese children with developmental dyslexia. And then, the present training study also demonstrated the causal link between audiovisual integration and reading. Forty Chinese dyslexic children were divided into training group (training DD group) and wait-list controls (untrained DD group) equally. Twenty-two age-matched normal children(CA group) who didn’t participated the training were also included as normal controls. The training DD group received audiovisual integrative training for 15 times in eight weeks. Before and after the training, the present study would measure the reading related skills of all the children. And he present study also measured the reading related skills of eleven training dyslexics again two months later. The results showed that:(1) After audiovisual integration training, the phonological awareness and morphological awareness of training DD group were significantly improved, but did not reach the level of CA group. In addition, reading fluency and visual attention were significantly improved even though reading fluency and visual attention of training DD group were not better than that of untrained DD group. Phonological working memory, rapid automatic naming, and reading accuracy were not affected by audio-visual integration training.(2) Two months later, the second post-test results of eleven training DD showed that the effect of audio-visual integration training on children's phonological awareness, morphologicale awareness, reading fluency and visual attention ability in the training group were still sustainable.The above results showed that audiovisual integration training for children with developmental dyslexia can significantly improve reading related skills, and has a sustained effect. Present study found that training the ability of audiovisual integration could effectively improved reading related skills of children with Chinese dyslexia. The results proved the causal link between audiovisual integration and Chinese developmental dyslexia, and also provided a direct basis for intervention and correction of Chinese dyslexia.
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