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[ti:Study Suggests Video Games Might Help Dyslexics] [ar:June Simms] [al:Technology Report] [by:www.chinavoa.com] [00:00.00]From VOA Learning English, [00:01.83]this is the Technology Report. [00:05.13]Dyslexia is a learning disorder, [00:08.79]it interferes with the ability to recognise words, [00:13.05]and for some readers to understand what they have read. [00:18.20]Experts say dyslexia affects [00:22.06]about five to ten percent [00:24.30]of the population of the United State. [00:27.61]Researchers have long known [00:30.56]that people with dyslexia [00:32.92]write or read words and letters backwards [00:36.76]in the wrong order. [00:38.37]But a new study shows [00:40.86]that people with dyslexia [00:43.23]may have trouble redirecting [00:46.19]their attention between senses, [00:48.59]from seeing something to hearing something. [00:52.09]The study suggests [00:54.70]something that might help [00:56.83]dyslexic people learn more quickly - [00:59.79]play video games. [01:01.88]Vanessa Harrar of Britain's University of Oxford [01:06.82]led the study. [01:08.09]She reported the findings in the journal [01:11.44]Current Biology. The study suggests [01:15.04]that dyslexic people [01:17.29]may have trouble moving quickly [01:19.71]from what they read to what they hear. [01:23.13]Doctor Harrar calls this [01:25.78]a "sluggish shifting of attention across the senses." [01:30.63]"So, if you are trying to read something [01:32.74]and then trying to listen to somebody [01:34.19]who's reading aloud and you're trying to follow along [01:36.39]with what they are reading -- [01:37.35]they have to switch their attention from [01:38.74]hearing what they are saying [01:39.80]to looking at the piece of paper and back again. [01:41.60]So we found they have quite sluggish shifting [01:43.81]of attention across the senses," said Harrar. [01:46.46]In the study, Doctor Harrar tested 17 people with dyslexia, [01:52.22]and 19 others without reading problems. [01:56.63]The volunteers were asked to push a button [02:00.89]as quickly as possible when they heard a sound, [02:04.24]saw a light or experienced both together. [02:09.01]Doctor Harrar compared the speed of their reactions. [02:13.57]She found that people with dyslexia [02:17.57]were just as fast as the others [02:20.37]when they saw only a picture [02:22.92]or heard only a sound. [02:25.98]But the dyslexics had a slower reaction time [02:30.34]when they heard a sound [02:32.78]and saw a picture at the same time. [02:36.24]Doctor Harrar feels like playing action video games [02:40.89]could help dyslexic people shift from seeing [02:45.30]to hearing more quickly. [02:47.15]She adds that images in video games [02:50.96]force the eyes to move and focus quickly. [02:54.96]"Video game types of things pop out of here and there, [02:57.56]they move your eyes around the screen quite quickly [02:59.66]in response to things quite quickly, [03:01.36]and the more you play a video game [03:03.36]the faster you get that kind of thing. [03:05.11]So, the video game is really training [03:07.36]the attention system to move quickly," said Harrar. [03:09.26]The study also shows that dyslexic people [03:13.41]have the most difficulty going between [03:17.02]what they saw and what they heard, [03:19.22]this may have an effect [03:21.73]on how dyslexic children are taught how to read. [03:25.34]When children learn the alphabet， [03:28.54]they usually see the letter first [03:31.10]and then hear the sound, [03:33.45]or they see and hear the letter at the same time. [03:37.91]The study shows that dyslexics might learn more quickly [03:43.36]if they hear the sound of a letter [03:45.97]or word first before seeing it. [03:49.47]And that is the Technology Report [03:52.73]from VOA Learning English. I'm June Simms.

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