Study the effect of online visual games on balance, visual perception, and oculomotor skills of children with developmental dyslexia during Covid -19 pandemic

Study the effect of online visual games on balance, visual perception, and oculomotor skills of children with developmental dyslexia during Covid -19 pandemic

The interventions will be designed and made by Niloufar Chamani (Master of Sciences student in Occupational Therapy) as computer games and, will be provided to the intervention group online.

All assessments will be performed at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Rehabilitation, and as much as possible in the same conditions and environment for all participants. Interventions will be provided to the intervention group as web-based online computer games at home and, no intervention will be done in the control group. Blinding will be done only for the people who are in charge of evaluation and these people are not informed about the grouping of participants.

Inclusion criteria: developmental dyslexia diagnosis, NEMA scores below average, having normal IQ (equal to or above 85), age between 7 to 11 years (first-grade child should be at least In the second quarter of the academic year), and being fluent in Persian. Exclusion criteria: any neurological disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or sensory visual impairment

This study includes two groups: intervention and control. Online computer games will provide to the intervention group for one month and, the control group will not receive any intervention in this study.

Creating a product to improve visual skills, may easily be available to these children as an effective treatment, would be applicable as an available method to help treat these children as quickly and easily as possible, The findings of this study can be used for other related studies in the future.

The randomization method is the random allocation rule. This method represents a large block for the total sample size, which is 50 people, which randomly assigns 25 children with developmental dyslexia (DD) in the intervention group and the rest of the children with DD are in the control group. The number is assigned and the numbers are written on paper and packaged in exactly the same way. These numbers are placed in a container and then the numbers are randomly removed from the container without replacement and the created sequence is recorded. The first 25 children are in the intervention group and the rest are in the control group.

Evaluators including a psychologist, an occupational therapist, and an audiologist. They perform all assessments, including TVPS-R, PBS, VNG, Wechsler Child Scale (WISC-IV), and reading and dyslexia (NMA) tests. Evaluators will not be aware of whether individuals are in the control or intervention group.