Kathrin Wunsch, Janis Fiedler, Sebastian Hubenschmid, Harald Reiterer, Britta Renner, Alexander Woll
An mHealth Intervention Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Eating in a Family Setting (SMARTFAMILY): Randomized Controlled Trial
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
children developmental dyslexia struggle learn read spell despite adequate intelligence educational opportunity several lines research attempting establish neurobiological basis dyslexia lowlevel sensory motor deficits found dyslexic populations furthermore behavioural imaging data point cerebellar dysfunction dyslexia investigate normal readers n19 children developmental dyslexia n16 asked perform various cognitive literacy balancing tasks children balanced left right foot eyes open closed period 10 movements recorded motiontracking system dyslexic children less stable control children eyesopen conditions left foot p002 right foot p0012 group differences eyesclosed conditions dyslexic children dropped foot correct balance significantly often control children p005 incidence analysis showed 50 dyslexic group fell impaired category eyesopen balancing tasks mean balancing scores foot drops considered three dyslexic children showed evidence balancing difficulties strong correlations reading spelling scores mean eyesopen balancing score r052 044 respectively thus children developmental dyslexia show impaired balancing skills lowlevel motor dysfunction may associated impaired literacy development could due several factors including involvement cerebellum magnocellular system general developmental immaturity