RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Effects of Using Direct Instruction Curricula in the Home to Teach Reading Comprehension to a 12-Year-Old Student with Cerebral Palsy
Anna Owens, Amy Violette, Kimberly P. Weber, T. F. McLaughlin*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 2
First Page: 9
Last Page: 14
Publisher Id: TOFAMSJ-2-9
DOI: 10.2174/1874922400902010009
Article History:
Received Date: 17/12/2008Revision Received Date: 13/1/2009
Acceptance Date: 14/1/2009
Electronic publication date: 6/2/2009
Collection year: 2009
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of Direct Instruction curricula for teaching reading comprehension skills in the home. The participant was a 12-year-old girl who was enrolled in the seventh grade at a public middle school in the Pacific Northwest. She had been unable to pass her Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) in the sixth grade. Two undergraduate students served as instructors. Each session began by asking 12 systematically random comprehension questions from the lessons of Corrective Reading Comprehension Skills Book B1. These comprehension questions served as the major dependent variable. The results indicated an increase number of correct reading comprehensions when Direct Instruction materials and procedures were employed. The use of Direct Instruction was cost effective, required little training to correctly implement, and was time efficient. The participant enjoyed the procedures and was proud of her improvements in reading.