Pulsed lighting for adults with Dyslexia: very limited impact, confined to individuals with severe reading deficits.

ABSTRACT: The goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of pulsed lighting on the reading performance of young adults with dyslexia. A total of 42 participants were recruited, including individuals diagnosed with developmental dyslexia and adults without reported reading difficulties. The severity of each participant's reading deficit was assessed on a continuous scale using a reading impairment score, derived from four reading tests: an isolated-word reading test, a pseudoword reading test, and two reading fluency tests. The impairment score ranged from 0 (no impairment) to 4 (severe impairment across all tests). To examine the potential effect of pulsed lighting, we measured (1) sentence reading speed, expressed as a reading accessibility index (ACC), and (2) text comprehension, expressed as a

SUBMITTER: Lapeyre E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436632 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature