TREATMENT OF DYSLEXIA WITH OPERANT PROCED URES

A number of works and investigations have tried to establish a quasi-c ausal relationship between problems in coordinating the movement of th e body (sense of the right and left, orientation, rhythm, etc.) and dy slexia. The present study is direcred -through experimental interventi on- to the analysis of this supposed relationship, which is -on the ot her han- the base of traditional psychoeducational treatment. It has b een applied, then, a standard therapeutical paket and a behavioral pro cedure to a sample of 29 subjects whose profiles responded to the trad itional theoretical presupposings of dyslexia children. The results an swer back and extended the findings of previous studies showing that t he behavioral intervention offers improvement neatly superior to the o nes obtained through global intervention. In this way the notion of '' dyslexia'' losses its credit in favour of considering the reading diso rders as learning difficulties.