Teaching Reading To Young Learners With Disabilities
The following Internet sites provide additional information on students with disabilities:
- ERIC Authors: Frost, Julie A.; Emery, Michael J. Approximately 3% to 6% of all school-aged children are believed to have developmental reading disabilities, or dyslexia. In fact, almost 50% of children receiving special education have learning disabilities, and dyslexia is the mostprevalent form. Consequently dyslexia has been given considerable attention by researchers and extensive literature exists on instruction and remediation methods.
Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness for Students with Learning Disabilities. ERIC Learning to read begins well before the first day of school. When Ron and Donna tell nursery rhymes to their baby, Mia, they are beginning to teach Mia to read. They are helping her to hear the similarities and differences in the sounds of words. She will begin to manipulate and understand sounds in spoken language, and she will practice this understanding by making up rhymes and new words of her own. She will learn the names of the letters and she will learn the different sounds each letter represents. As she gets a little older, Ron and Donna will teach her to write letters and numbers that she will already recognize by their shapes. Finally, she will associate the letters of the alphabet with the sounds of the words she uses when she speaks. At this point, she is on her way to learning to read! Digest #E540.
- Dr. Reid Lyon Acting Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) National Institutes of Health (NIH) This article is adapted from testimony given by Dr. Reid Lyon before the Committe on Education and the Workforce in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 10, 1997.
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