The Video Game Treatment
Chasing Life
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Do You Have a Child With a Dyslexia Disorder?
The fda gave the video game approval a little over two years ago. It is now available with the prescription for children eight through 12 as a part of a comprehensive treatment programme. And they would receive the challenges and rewards that the game is offering them, that are putting pressure on those neural networks involved in attentional control. In many different studies, including this population, their ability to focus their attention in boring environments, not the game environment, improves.
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