Video games could be of help to children with dyslexia Fox News reported.
According to a study printed in the journal cell biology, scientists from the University of Oxford discovered dyslexia influences five to 10 percent of people who have trouble spelling or have difficulty reading. The study also found more individuals require more effort when they want to look, and hear. They also have trouble using their senses all at once when doing something, and aren't as fast when moving to and from senses.
"This fits into the attention model of dyslexia - being slower to shift attention from one thing to another," Vanessa Harrar, an experimental psychologist told Fox News.
The aforementioned individuals conditions are improved however when they play video games Fox News reported.
"These video games require you to respond very quickly, to shift attention to one part of the screen to another," Harrar told Fox News. Harrar oversaw the study, which is printed in Cell Biology.
"The idea is to train with some kind of video game that trains the eye movements to different locations to add in that multisensory component," Harrar said.
"We already knew that dyslexics have difficulty shifting from one place or another. [In previous research] having headphones in the ears, but seeing the visual on a screen was a confound. This is the first to really control location so everything is exactly perceived as coming from the same place," Harrar told Fox News.
"For me, it's more about... finding the right training for each person," Harrar told Fox News.
Scientists evaluated 34 people when they pushed down on a button every time they came across a sound, a dark flashing light, or observed them at the same time.
Fifty-percent of the people were dyslexic, while the other fifty percent were not Fox News reported.
