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Peer reviewedGallaher, Kelly M.; van Kraayenoord, Christina E.; Jobling, Anne; Moni, Karen B. – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2002
Tutoring sessions within a LATCH-ON (Literacy and Technology-Hands On) program were provided to a 19-year-old woman with Down syndrome. Instruction focused primarily on phonics instruction, as well as other decoding strategies. She developed the ability to associate consonant and vowel sounds with letter presentations and to recognize whole word…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Decoding (Reading), Down Syndrome, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedVadasy, Patricia F.; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Peyton, Julia A.; Jenkins, Joseph R. – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2002
A study compared students at risk for reading disabilities who were provided phonics-based instruction in first grade (n=13), students tutored in comprehension skills in second grade (n=10), and students tutored in both grades (n=26). Students tutored only in first grade performed better than those also tutored in second grade. (Contains…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Phonics, Primary Education
Peer reviewedAbbott, Sylvia P.; Berninger, Virginia W. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1999
Twenty children (grades 4 through 7) with reading disabilities participated in 16 one-hour individual tutorials over a one-month period with instruction for half the group including structural analysis and alphabet principle training without structural analysis. Children in both groups improved reliably and equally in reading and related measures.…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Individual Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedVadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Pool, Kathleen – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2000
Twenty-three first-graders at risk for learning disabilities received one-to-one tutoring from noncertified tutors for 30 minutes, 4 days a week, for one school year. Tutoring included instruction in phonological skills, explicit decoding, writing, spelling, and reading phonically controlled text. Participants significantly outperformed controls…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Decoding (Reading), Early Intervention, Grade 1
Project ASSIST Institute: An Orton-Gillingham/Spalding Based Curriculum for Teachers and Volunteers.
Peer reviewedBiasotto, Virginia L. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1993
The mother of a son with dyslexia documents her son's success in learning to read in a private school using the Orton-Gillingham approach and her efforts to bring that approach into the public schools of Delaware, through Project ASSIST (Alphabetic Sound Symbol Instruction Systematically Taught) and its volunteer tutors and teacher training.…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Direct linkBrown, Kathleen J.; Morris, Darrell; Fields, Matthew – Journal of Literacy Research, 2005
The present study replicated the original evaluation of the Howard Street tutoring model (Morris, Shaw, & Perney, Perney, 1990), an intervention for struggling readers in second and third grade. It also evaluated the effectiveness of supervised paraprofessionals (Title I aides) in delivering that tutorial. For an entire school year, teachers or…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
