The main goal of the present study was to examine the efficacy of a multi-component programme to improve reading fluency and text comprehension in Spanish children with reading disabilities (RD). Special needs teachers were trained in the application of the programme, which included repeated reading plus phonological awareness training and grapheme-phoneme decoding training. Instruction was delivered one to one. Participants were 22 students with RD, aged 10-13, distributed in two groups: one with 12 children who received the intervention (experimental group), and the other with 10 children who received no intervention (comparison group). The effects of the training programme were evaluated using gains in scores on word and pseudo-word reading and text reading fluency, as well as on a text comprehension test. Results of analyses of covariance comparing the two groups with age as a covariate showed that children who participated in the intervention obtained statistically significant gains on the reading measures used, with the exception of text comprehension. Results are discussed with regard to effective interventions for students with reading disabilities. Reflections on the study's limitations provide a basis for recommending future lines of research.
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Mt St Vincent Univ, Fac Educ, 166 Bedford Highway, Halifax, NS B3M 2J6, CanadaMt St Vincent Univ, Fac Educ, 166 Bedford Highway, Halifax, NS B3M 2J6, Canada
Metsala, Jamie L.
David, Margaret D.
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Mt St Vincent Univ, Fac Educ, 166 Bedford Highway, Halifax, NS B3M 2J6, Canada
Nova Scotia Dept Educ & Early Childhood Dev, Halifax, NS, CanadaMt St Vincent Univ, Fac Educ, 166 Bedford Highway, Halifax, NS B3M 2J6, Canada
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Miami Univ, Educ Psychol Dept, Special Educ, Oxford, OH 45056 USAMiami Univ, Educ Psychol Dept, Special Educ, Oxford, OH 45056 USA
Therrien, William J.
Gormley, Shannon
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Buffalo State Coll, Dept Except Educ, New York, NY USAMiami Univ, Educ Psychol Dept, Special Educ, Oxford, OH 45056 USA
Gormley, Shannon
Kubina, Richard M.
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Penn State Univ, Dept Educ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
Penn State Univ, Sch Psychol & Special Educ, University Pk, PA 16802 USAMiami Univ, Educ Psychol Dept, Special Educ, Oxford, OH 45056 USA