Children with dyslexia may read better after playing action video games that stress mayhem, not literacy, a contested study suggests.
Playing fast-paced Wii video games for 12 hours over two weeks markedly increased the reading speed of 7- to 13-year-old kids with dyslexia, with no loss of reading accuracy, says a team led by psychologist Andrea Facoetti of the University of Padua, Italy.
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