Striking the right balance: motor difficulties in children and adults with dyslexia

A commentary on an article published in

A commentary on an article published in the february 2003 edition of ‘Dyslexia’, ‘evaluation of an exercise-based treatment for children with reading difficulties’ (Reynolds, Nicolson, amp Hambly)

✍ M. McPhillips 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 29 KB 👁 1 views

he authors refer to our work (McPhillips, Hepper, & Mulhern (2000)) in the introduction and suggest that it provides evidence of absence of the Hawthorne effect in evaluative studies of exercise-based interventions. This is inaccurate. Firstly, the effect is more accurately described as a placebo ef