The Moyer Reading Technique Re-Evaluated

Moody, Sylvia

doi:10.1016/s0010-9452(88)80011-x

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“…Some LBL readers use a phonological strategy to decode the input from their LBL reading, resulting in a surface alexia profile [45]. Phonological and deep alexia also have been documented in some LBL readers indicating additional damage to phonological procedures [11,18,31]. By definition, pure alexia has been characterized as an acquired reading impairment in the absence of significant writing impairment; however, LBL may also be accompanied by spelling impairment [17,22,37].…”

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Letter‐By‐Letter Reading: Natural Recovery and Response to Treatment

Beeson

Magloire

Robey

2005

Behavioural Neurology

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The present investigation provides a longitudinal study of an individual (RB) with acquired alexia following left posterior cerebral artery stroke. At initial testing, RB exhibited acquired alexia characterized by letter-by-letter (LBL) reading, mild anomic aphasia, and acquired agraphia. Repeated measures of reading accuracy and rate were collected for single words and text over the course of one year, along with probes of naming and spelling abilities. Improvements associated with natural recovery (i.e., without treatment) were documented up to the fourth month post onset, when text reading appeared to be relatively stable. Multiple oral reading (MOR) treatment was initiated at 22 weeks post-stroke, and additional improvements in reading rate and accuracy for text were documented that were greater than those expected on the basis of spontaneous recovery alone. Over the course of one year, reading reaction times for single words improved, and the word-length effect that is the hallmark of LBL reading diminished. RB's response to treatment supports the therapeutic value of MOR treatment to in LBL readers. His residual impairment of reading and spelling one-year post stroke raised the question as to whether further progress was impeded by degraded orthographic knowledge.

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“…While Moyer [30] reported overt LBL reading by her subject at initial evaluation, she did not report on the presence or absence of a word length effect following treatment. Improved text reading rate with MOR treatment has been documented for other pure alexic patients with LBL reading [5,31,41], as well as alexic…”

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Letter‐By‐Letter Reading: Natural Recovery and Response to Treatment

Beeson

Magloire

Robey

2005

Behavioural Neurology

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“…Therefore, the present experiment provides further evidence for the efficacy of model-based treatment of oral reading and naming skills. Slow and laborious reading, a major characteristic of pure alexia, can be treated successfully by employing the Multiple Oral Rereading (MOR) method (Moyer, 1979;Moody, 1988;Tuomainen & Laine, 1991. Interestingly, in some patients, single word recognition as such does not improve but words are recognized faster only in relevant context (Tuomainen & Laine, 1993).…”

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2000

Brain and Language

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“…It has been shown to increase the reading speed of the practiced passage and, more importantly, to generalize to novel text (e.g., Moody, 1988; Beeson & Insalaco, 1998; Beeson, Magloire & Robey, 2005). In the original 1979 study using the MOR technique (Moyer, 1979) the patient read a passage aloud for 30 minutes a day for one week.…”

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Multiple Oral Re-reading treatment for alexia: The parts may be greater than the whole

Lacey

Lott

Snider

et al. 2010

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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This study examines the reasons for the success of Multiple Oral Re-reading (MOR; Moyer, 1979), a non-invasive, easily administered alexia treatment that has been reported in the literature and is currently in clinical use. The treatment consists of reading text passages aloud multiple times a day. Findings that MOR improves reading speed on practiced as well as novel text have been inconsistent, making MOR‘s role in the rehabilitation of alexia unclear. We hypothesized that MOR’s treatment mechanism works through repetition of high frequency words (i.e., bottom-up processing). We designed and controlled our text passages to test the hypothesis that participants would not improve on all novel text but would improve on text that includes a critical mass of the words contained in the passages they were re-reading. We further hypothesized that the improvement would be at the level of their specific alexic deficit. We tested four participants with phonologic alexia and two with pure alexia during 8 weeks of MOR treatment. Contrary to the conclusions of previous studies, our results indicate that improvements in top-down processing cannot explain generalization in MOR and that much of the improvement in reading is through repetition of the practiced words. However, most patients also showed improvement when specific phrases were re-used in novel passages, indicating that practice of difficult words in context may be crucial to reading improvement.

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The Moyer Reading Technique Re-Evaluated

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Letter‐By‐Letter Reading: Natural Recovery and Response to Treatment

Letter‐By‐Letter Reading: Natural Recovery and Response to Treatment

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Multiple Oral Re-reading treatment for alexia: The parts may be greater than the whole

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