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Enrollment in a therapeutic boarding school can support dyslexic children

By Staff Writer

A recent study by researchers at the University of Cambridge found that children who have dyslexia have trouble sensing a rhythmic pattern while listening to music.

In order to arrive at this conclusion, researchers asked a group of 10-year-old children with and without dyslexia to listen to short songs and decide whether they sound alike. Researchers found that youths who had dyslexia found this to be challenging, regardless of how simple the songs were.

Researchers believe that the study results show that there is a correlation between not being able to read well and struggling to perceive metrical structure in music for dyslexic children.

According to the researchers, past studies have shown that children who have this learning disorder typically struggle when counting the number of syllables in words and deciding whether or not two words rhyme. Since these issues can be found in youths who speak many different languages and use a wide range of writing systems, researchers have concluded that children who have dyslexia cannot process the way sounds are structured in spoken language.

Parents who feel that their dyslexic child is struggling to keep up with peers may want to consider enrolling him or her in a therapeutic boarding school for extra academic support.

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