Group lessons on explaining setbacks were reported to help children with dyslexia
Who it’s about: Children, Students, People with a health condition
- Helped
Kids who learned to blame setbacks on effort, not skill, were said to put off schoolwork less than the others.
- Action: Challenge unhelpful thoughtstested
- Rule: Practise with a groupused
- Rule: With a coach or therapistused
Small randomised trial of 30 children aged 7 to 10 with dyslexia · vs children who got nothing · they rated themselves · ⚠ numbers unreliable
The study
Who took part
30 children aged 7 to 10 with dyslexia, a reading disorder. They came from rehabilitation and learning centres in Isfahan, Iran.
What they did
15 children went to eleven 45-minute group sessions, twice a week, led by a trained specialist. They practised replacing gloomy explanations of failure with ones they could control, such as effort. The other 15 children got nothing.
What happened
The paper says the lesson group put off schoolwork less than the other group at the end. It says this lasted two months. The tables are garbled, so we can't check the numbers or give sizes.
Source
The effectiveness of the intervention based on attributional retraining on academic burnout and academic procrastination of students with reading learning disorder (2022)
DOI: 10.61838/kman.jarac.4.4.3 (opens in a new tab)Tools in this study
Action5
Challenge unhelpful thoughtsCognitive restructuring of beliefs such as perfectionism or catastrophising.
