The Effectiveness of Family-Based Software on Reading Skills in Elementary Students with Reading Disorders

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of family-based software on reading skills in elementary students with reading disorder. The statistical population of this study included all 3th grade elementary school students with learning disabilities in Mashhad in the academic year of 2017-2018. The sample of this study consisted of 32 individuals (two groups of 16 people). Due to the existence of 10 learning disabilities centers in Mashhad, they were randomly selected from the list of third grade elementary students with learning disabilities and randomly divided into two groups (experimental and control). The data required for this study were obtained through the Reading Performance Test (Karimi & Nouri, 2005). The educational intervention consisted of 10 sessions in families of students with learning disabilities at the beginning of each week receiving appropriate software exercises from the instructor and working with their child throughout the week. The results showed that family-based softwaretraining had a significant effect on reading skills of students with reading disorder (P <0.05). Thus, it can be said that the content of the software along with the instruction given to families to use it at home has accelerated the process of improving reading problems and disabilities in students with reading disabilities.

Keywords

• family-based education
• reading disorder
• reading skills