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Open Access 11-01-2024 | Dyslexia

The COVID generation: Online dyslexia treatment equally effective as face-to-face treatment in a Dutch sample

Authors: Cara Verwimp, Anniek Vaessen, Patrick Snellings, Reinout W. Wiers, Jurgen Tijms

Abstract

Due to pandemic-induced lockdown(s) in 2020, dyslexia treatment was forced to move to online platforms. This study examined whether Dutch children who received online treatment progressed as much in their reading and spelling performance as children who received the usual face-to-face treatment. To this end, 254 children who received treatment-as-usual were compared to 162 children who received online treatment with Bayesian methods. The advantage of a Bayesian approach is that it can provide evidence for and against the null hypothesis whereas frequentist approaches only provide evidence against it. We found that children in the online treatment condition received slightly fewer treatment sessions but progressed equally after controlling for the number of sessions compared to the treatment-as-usual condition. These results have clinical and practical implications as they show that reading treatment can be successfully delivered online.

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Title: The COVID generation: Online dyslexia treatment equally effective as face-to-face treatment in a Dutch sample
Authors: Cara Verwimp
Anniek Vaessen
Patrick Snellings
Reinout W. Wiers
Jurgen Tijms
Publication date: 11-01-2024
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: Dyslexia
COVID-19
Published in: Annals of Dyslexia
Print ISSN: 0736-9387
Electronic ISSN: 1934-7243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-023-00298-0

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