This research bears significant implications for educational institutions and households. In California alone, over a million public school students grapple with Dyslexia at the same time as 1 in 3 children require “intensive” reading assistance in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Published in Frontiers in Neurology: NeuroRehabilitation, the study titled “Case Report: Neural Timing Deficits Prevalent in Developmental Disorders, Aging, and Concussions Remediated Rapidly By Movement Discrimination Exercises,” offers a profound insight into the impact of visual timing deficits on visual and auditory working memory, selective and sustained attention, and reading comprehension and speed, particularly in dyslexic individuals, older adults, and those recovering from traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). A mere 20-minute bi-weekly regimen of PATH neurotraining over eight weeks yielded noteworthy improvements in the visual and cognitive capacities of a 28-year-old dyslexic participant and a septuagenarian woman, effectively remediating their visual timing deficiencies.

Employing Magnetoencephalography (MEG) source imaging—a non-invasive functional imaging method—the study revealed PATH Neurotraining’s ability to rectify visual timing deficits within the middle temporal cortex of a dyslexic individual. This intervention led to an extraordinary surge in sustained attention from a mere 10% to an impressive 82%, while visual working memory witnessed a remarkable ascent from 6% to an astounding 99%. Remarkable cognitive advancements were similarly documented in the case of the elderly participant, who, at the age of 72, exhibited substantial improvements in visual working memory, auditory working memory, and processing speed that remained viable four years later at age 76 – percentages that ascended from 34% to 86% to 87%, 55% to 97% to 90%, and 42% to 77% to 87%, respectively.

The study underscores the efficacy of addressing neural timing deficits within low-level dorsal pathways before engaging in targeted cognitive exercises, delineating it as the swiftest and most potent avenue to bolster cognitive capabilities. With compelling evidence, the study elucidates the transformative potential of PATH’s eye-brain exercises, centered around movement discrimination, in elevating the performance of visual, attention, memory, and executive control pathways. Notably, PATH Neurotraining emerges as the paramount visually-based therapeutic intervention for diverse manifestations of dyslexia, aging-related cognitive challenges, and post-concussion rehabilitation.

This investigation further establishes the capacity of movement discrimination exercises to invigorate the brain, galvanizing low- and high-level functions to fortify feedforward and feedback pathways. These exercises improve reading, problem-solving, and multitasking aptitudes by nurturing visual attention, memory, and executive-control networks. The study sheds light on the pivotal role played by visual movement discrimination, not only in addressing dyslexia but also in nurturing cognitive skills, including executive functioning, in individuals of all ages spanning from typically developing children to adults, and even those in post-concussion recovery.

Visit the PATH to Reading/Insight website to peruse an array of: 1) testimonials from educators, parents, students, and optometrists, 2) publications, or 3) request more information.

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Lawton said the technique —  is similar to a game where children study moving patterns.  Click on the link below to learn how this novel breakthrough method improves cognitive slowdown so reading and attention improve quickly.

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Dyslexic and normal children who play a computer game that trains them to detect subtle, moving patterns have significantly increased their reading speeds, attention and memory, according to a randomized, controlled trial.

The games, part of the PATH to Reading (PATH) program, are designed to improve visual motion processing. The improvements following PATH neurotraining were compared to a computer-based guided reading program called Raz-Kids. PATH neurotraining provided significant improvements in reading fluency, speed, comprehension, attention and working memory, the study found.

“These results show that visual temporal processing is fundamental for learning to read, paying attention, and remembering, contrary to claims that reading is only phonologically-based,” according to Dr. Teri Lawton, founder of the Perception Dynamics Institute, which developed the PATH program and a team from the University of California, San Diego.

This research was published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience in collaboration with Professor John Shelley-Tremblay “Training on Figure/Ground Discrimination Remediates Low-Level Visual Timing Deficits in the Dorsal Stream, Improving High-Level Cognitive Functions, Including Attention, Reading Fluency, and Working Memory” in May 2017.

The researchers evaluated 12-week interventions on 42 second and third grade students where the entire class participated, both dyslexic and normal readers. They divided the students into two groups, PATH or Raz-Kids for 30 minutes per day, two days per week.

All of the students did this program first thing in the school day so they had plenty of practice on reading afterwards. The students took standardized tests of reading fluency, attention and working memory and the researchers compared the differences with Analyses of Covariance (ANCOVAs).

PATH significantly improved attention, reading fluency, and working memory in both dyslexic and normal readers. Raz-Kids, on the other hand, improved some of these cognitive skills, but only improvements in attention were significant.
The researchers suspect that the PATH games target the dorsal stream area of the brain that is thought to cause dyslexics and some normal readers to struggle with reading.

The publication is available online here: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00236/full. More information about the Path to Reading program is here: http://www.pathtoreading.com/.

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Dyslexic children who play a computer game that trains them to detect subtle, moving patterns have significantly increased their reading speeds, attention and memory, according to a randomized, controlled trial.

The games, part of the PATH to Reading program, are designed to improve visual motion processing. Compared to the auditory reading improvement program called Fast ForWord, PATH was associated with significant improvements in reading fluency, speed, comprehension, attention and working memory, the study found.

“These results show that visual temporal processing is fundamental for learning to read, paying attention, and remembering, contrary to claims that reading is only phonologically-based,” according to Dr. Teri Lawton, founder of the Perception Dynamics Institute, which developed the PATH program and a team from the University of California, San Diego.

This research was published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience “Improving Dorsal Stream Function in Dyslexics by Training Figure/Ground Motion Discrimination Improves Attention Reading Fluency, and Working Memory” in August 2016.

The researchers evaluated 20-week interventions on 58 second-grade students diagnosed with dyslexia. They divided the students into three groups, PATH for 30 minutes per day, three days per week; Fast ForWord (FFW) for 30 minutes per day,; and a control group.

All of the students also underwent a reading program called “Learning Upgrade.” The students took standardized tests of reading fluency, attention and working memory and the researchers compared the differences with Analyses of Covariance (ANCOVAs).

PATH significantly improved attention, reading fluency, and working memory. FFW, on the other hand, improved many of these cognitive skills, but none of these improvements were significant.

The researchers suspect that the PATH games target the dorsal stream area of the brain that is thought to cause dyslexics to struggle with reading.

The publication is available online here: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00397/full. More information about the Path to Reading program is here: http://www.pathtoreading.com/.

KEYWORDS:
MEDNEWS; NEUROLOGY; PROFESSIONAL; MENTAL; PEDIATRICS;DRGDONLY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; CHILDPSYCH; NURSING; CONFERENCES
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DEFINITIONS:
dyslexic: those who have difficulty reading, but have normal vision and intelligence; dorsal stream: where letters, words, and objects are located; ventral stream: what are the letters, words, and objects that we see, including their color, depth, and texture; magnocells- large cells originating in the retina and called parasol cells, segregated in different layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus (lgn), and input to a specific layer (4Ca) in V1, the primary visual cortex, comprising the major cell type in the dorsal stream; parvocells- small cells originating in the retina and called midget ganglion cells, segregated in different layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus (lgn), and input to different layers in V1 (4Cb), the primary visual cortex, comprising the major cell type in the ventral stream.

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