A bold new theory of dyslexia, with Prof Usha Goswami
Instant Genius
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The Role of Music in Dyslexia
If a dyslexic person listens to a lot of music and is more familiar with different rhythms that they'd be able to read better as well. We do have some therapies that we're trying to develop based on this rhythm theory, and I think you've got to match the music to speech. That happens very naturally when you're singing. You're trying to time the beats in the words, as it were, to the beat pattern of music.
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