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Download full textMountford, Kathy A. – Online Submission, 2007
The following Action Research Project Report is to improve the oral reading fluency of the 4th and 5th grade students with learning disabilities. The targeted population participating in this study consisted of a total of ten participants of which five were 4th grade students and five were 5th grade students located in a middle class community…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Intervention, Reading Fluency, Research Projects
Hansen, Cheryl L. – 1976
The effects on independent reading performance of two methods of word-attack instruction were compared for eight learning-disabled boys of intermediate age. The students read orally in the Checkered Flag series for five minutes daily. After a baseline period of two or four weeks, the students received two weeks of instruction focused on observed…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Doctoral Dissertations, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
Bowman, Lynne Michele – 1999
A study examined the effects of commercially produced phonics software upon the phonemic awareness of students studying reading with the Herman Method for teaching reading. Participants were 13 middle school students in a self-contained or comprehensive developmental special education classroom. The control group of six students did not use the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
Blanchard, Pamela Snyder – 2000
A study compared the benefits of phonological awareness instruction along with and without a phonics computer software program to improve phonological and reading skills in elementary students with mild mental disabilities. During the eight weeks of the study in the fall of 1999, elementary resource students were taught phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Evaluation, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Gustafson, Stefan – 2000
This thesis examined variations in the word decoding skills of children with reading disabilities. These variations were related to possible cognitive, developmental, and environmental causes of reading disability. Possible implications for educational interventions were also analyzed in the five studies. The thesis critically examines the…
Descriptors: Children, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Foreign Countries
Scott, Louise Shewfelt – 1999
This report discusses the outcomes of a study that investigated whether the Accelerated Reader program meets its claim to motivate and improve reading achievement for all students, including those with special needs. The Accelerated Reader program is a computer-based reading management system that includes a database of thousands of books ranging…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Hoover, John J. – 1978
The thesis presents a literature review of selected characteristics of learning disabled children and the relationship between these characteristics and reading. Thirty-three characteristics are discussed, divided into three categories: selected cognitive abilities, speech and language development, and selected behavioral and emotional-social…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
