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Teaching prereading skills to disabled children
Author(s) -
JOHANSSON I.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1993.tb00884.x
Subject(s) - categorization , psychology , reading (process) , syllable , intervention (counseling) , perception , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , computer science , speech recognition , philosophy , neuroscience , psychiatry
A Swedish survey suggests that less than 10% of. children with Down's syndrome between 7 and 10 years of age are able to read a simple text. Children with Down's syndrome in a programme for early language intervention show clear progress in reading ability. The programme focuses on general language development, auditory and visual perception, and fine‐motor ability. Prereading skills are stimulated in a systematic way such as identifying and discriminating sound‐patterns at the level of the word, the syllable and the segments, and children are helped to categorize forms, to discriminate and understand pictures, to recognize the direction of reading, and to realize the grapheme‐phoneme correspondence.