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ERIC Number: EJ1229925
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Sep
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-0952-3383
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Efficacy of a Visuomotor-Based Intervention for Children with Reading and Spelling Disabilities: A Pilot Study
Layes, Smail; Chouchani, Mohamed Salah; Mecheri, Soulef; Lalonde, Robert; Rebaï, Mohamed
British Journal of Special Education, v46 n3 p317-339 Sep 2019
We predicted that Arabic-speaking children with specific learning disabilities in reading (dyslexia) and spelling (in writing) benefit from a visuomotor-based intervention programme for the development of letter knowledge and the improvement of word and pseudo-word decoding as well as spelling (dictation). It was predicted that the mediation of visuomotor training should be effective since the characteristics of Arabic script require such high-level functioning for the development of literacy skills. Participants (n = 20) were randomly divided in two groups, an experimental group (n = 10; mean age =125.50 months ± 3.24) and a control group (n = 10; mean age = 124.10 months ± 3.31). Results revealed that the post-intervention measures were better achieved in the experimental group than pre-intervention ones, which confirms the efficacy of this visuomotor intervention programme.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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