The effect of enlarged characters on reading accuracy and fluency in Japanese children with developmental dyslexia

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24730766
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: Mejiro University
• Principal Investigator: GOTO Takashi 目白大学, 保健医療学部, 専任講師 (50584231)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 発達性読み書き障害 / 学習障害 / 音読 / 正確性 / 流暢性 / 視覚的要因 / 文字の大きさ / 文字と文字の間隔・行間

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted reading tasks in Japanese children with developmental dyslexia in order to reveal the effect of enlarged characters on reading accuracy and fluency. We evaluated the duration time and misreading rate of reading tasks of hiragana words and hiragana non-words in six Japanese speaking children with developmental dyslexia. The duration time and misreading rate of the reading tasks was measured small, medium and large print. Hiragana non-words tasks did show a significant difference in the reading accuracy under the three print conditions. Our results suggest that using large print does improve reading accuracy in Japanese children with developmental dyslexia.

Free Research Field

社会科学