NCT05137353

A Multisensory Music Intervention for Children With Reading Disorders (RitMoZ)

RitMoZ Training: A Randomized Control Trial Study to Assess a Multisensory Music Intervention for Children With Reading Disorders in Hungary

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 51 (actual)
• Sponsor: Research Centre for Natural Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

With this study, we wish to test how effective/ beneficial music activities can be for children with dyslexia.

Detailed description

Studies have shown that music in the form of training (i.e., intervention) is able to facilitate linguistic processes (e.g., phonological encoding/decoding, categorical perception) and cognitive functions (e.g., working memory) in children that have dyslexia or reading difficulties. In addition to this, music trainings with a focus on entrainment can improve phonological as well as reading skills. In line with the above, we have designed and developed a music training programme. This programme, which is called RitMoZ Training (i.e., from Ritmus és Mozgás és Zene: meaning Rhythm and Movement and Music in Hungarian language), is designed for (Hungarian) children who have dyslexia or reading difficulties. In order to assess the efficacy of the music training, we are going to conduct a randomized controlled trial which consists of a pre-training phase, a training phase and a post-training phase.

Conditions

• Reading Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Music Training (RitMoZ Training)	This training is inspired by intervention concepts followed in SUVAG Polyclinic in Zagreb, Croatia and Kodaly pedagogy in Hungary. RitMoZ Training programme consists of 6 main activities: matching activity, nursery rhymes, rhythmic stimulations, music shapes, music writing and music reading. The training focuses on the perceptual overlap between language and music, embodiment and entrainment. The aim of the training is to improve characteristic features of reading disorders such as phonological awareness, perception of rhythm, phonological working memory and perception of speech sounds.
BEHAVIORAL	Spelling Training	This training consists of activities which focus on practicing spelling words in a computer task; the aim is to train orthographic processing which is suggested to improve phonological awareness and phonological working memory.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-15
• Primary completion: 2022-06-30
• Completion: 2022-08-31
• First posted: 2021-11-30
• Last updated: 2022-10-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hungary