Sensory white noise improves reading skills and memory recall in children with reading disability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reading disability (RD) is characterized by slow and inaccurate word reading development, commonly reflecting underlying phonological problems. We have previously shown that exposure to white noise acutely improves cognitive performance in children with ADHD. The question addressed here is whether white noise exposure yields positive outcomes also for RD. There are theoretical reasons to expect such a possibility: a) RD and ADHD are two overlapping neurodevelopmental disorders and b) since prior research on white noise benefits has suggested that a central mechanism might be the phenomenon of stochastic resonance, then adding certain kinds of white noise might strengthen the signal-to-noise ratio during phonological processing and phoneme-grapheme mapping.

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SUBMITTER: Soderlund GBW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8323032 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature