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Eighty-seven children, 6 to 16 years of age, with reading and/or spelling difficulties were trained in a new program (Phono-GraphixTM) that emphasizes phoneme awareness training, sound-to-print orientation, curriculum design sequenced by orthographic complexity, and active parental supervision in homework assignments. The children’s initial level of competence to access the alphabet code was revealed by diagnostic testing, and individualized sequences of instruction were developed. The children received 12 hours or less of one-to-one training, one hour per week. Children gained an average of 13.7 standard score points on word recognition (1.70 points per clinical hour) and 19.34 standard score points on nonsense word decoding (2.57 points per clinical hour).
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McGuinness, C., McGuinness, D. & McGuinness, G. Phono-GraphixTM: A new method for remediating reading difficulties. Annals of Dyslexia 46, 73–96 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02648172
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