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H J Kossow

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PubMed1984

[Results of concentration training in normally intelligent students with poor concentration].

The contribution reports on the efficiencies of two different concentration training programmes tested on 40 normally intelligent boys with severely reduced concentration. Twenty of the boys received rhythmic music therapy and the other 20 received a special teaching programme based on psychological principles. Psychostimulants were also administered to 10 boys in each group. The success of treatment was assessed by comparison with an untreated group of pupils with reduced concentration. The boys who received additional psychostimulants achieved the greatest gain in learning as a result of concentration training. The special teaching programme is generally superior to rhythmic musical training.

Attention↗
PubMed1979

[Disorders of psychological performance in mentally normal school children].

The authors deal with such psychic factors as weaknesses in concentration, reading and spelling which are to a major degree responsible for failure at school. These factors often occur in combination and may indicate early brain damage, in complex interaction with milieu conditions. Ample evidence of this is given in a literature survey. Principles of concentration training and a diagnostic verification procedure are then outlined, which have been derived from an analysis of attention requirements made at school. A therapy for reading and spelling weaknesses is dealt with, followed by a presentation of the results of training and catamneses. Using the method of Kossow mistakes were reduced by 78 percent and spelling marks improved considerably, after the children had returned to their original schools. In conclusion information is given on future projects for better assistance and prevention in the case of reading and spelling weaknesses at the elementary stage.

Brain Damage, Chronic↗
PubMed1976

[The attitude toward learning and favorite subjects in students with reading and spelling disability].

The hypothesis of a general dislike of school and learning aversion in children with reading and spelling disability could not be confirmed. As far as the attitude to the subjects and to the teachers, particularly to the teachers of German, is concerned no deviation from the norm generally existed. The inclination towards lingual subjects is lower than in pupils attending polytechnic high schools. The contrast between frequent behavioural disorders in school on the one hand, and the general positive attitude towards school is interpreted as a appetency-aversion conflict. The dominance of appetency is caused by the favourable social and pedagogic conditions in socialist society and is regarded as a prerequisite of successful therapy.

Attitude↗
PubMed1976

[Secondary symptoms of reading and spelling disability].

The hypothesis that the secondary symptoms of legasthenia can be derived in a linear and causal way from the primary symptoms is investigated. This study is based on data from the patients' history, diagnosis, therapy, and catamnesis. It is shown, that behavioural and adaptability disturbances are for the major part of prelegasthenic character but may become more pronounced by the manifestation of the primary symptoms. The parallel course of primary and so-called secondary symptoms with different times of manifestation is discussed as a conceptional model. Furthermore, the much less fully authenticated conceptional model based on findings in a childrens' neuropsychiatric clinic, which claims the existence of genuine secondary symptoms in a causal relationship to the primary symptoms, is not put into dispute.

Behavior↗