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Involving parents in teaching reading : a project with nine children with Down's syndrome
Author(s) -
Greene Kay
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of the british institute of mental handicap (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0261-9997
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1987.tb00410.x
Subject(s) - fluency , reading (process) , psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , pediatrics , mathematics education , linguistics , philosophy
This project involved parents of nine young children with Down's syndrome, who were all enrolled in St. Michael's House Early Services programme. The parents were given support and guidance by means of fortnightly visits by the home teacher who had worked with their children on other developmental activities since infancy. All the children learned to read some single words, ranging from 10 to 131. The mean for the group was 69 words. Eight children were reading these words in books. The number of completed books read ranged from one to five. The mean for the group was 2.7. There was wide variation within the group on the time taken to learn new words and on fluency in reading. All the parents agreed that the effort involved in teaching their children to read was well worth it.