International Journal of Research in Economics and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 1

Effectiveness of Remedial Programme on Improving Reading Comprehension Skills of Children with Dyslexia

  • Author:
  • Kanakappa Pujar1, H. M. Shailaja2
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 88 to 98

1Asst. Professor and Research Scholar, School of Education, Rani Channamma University, Belagavi-591156

2Director and Research Guide, School of Education, Rani Channamma University, Belagavi-591156

Online published on 27 July, 2017.

Abstract

The instant study examined the effectiveness of remedial programme on improving reading comprehension skills of children with dyslexia. The researcher has made the study single group experimental and conducted pre-test and post-test on reading comprehension to know the effectiveness of remedial programme. The sample comprised 50 dyslexic students of fifth standard studying in Government Primary Schools of Belagavi city, this sample was drawnwith the help of Rutter's Proforma-B (1967). The researcher has developed remedial programme based on English Text book prescribed by DSERT Karnataka state for the fifth standard and remedial programme has been conducted on the selected sample. In this study Performance on Reading Comprehension was Dependent Variable, whereas remedial programme was an independent variable and gender was treated as a moderator variable. The findings of the study reveal that the remedial programme is effective on improving the skills of reading comprehension among children with dyslexia.

Keywords

Reading Comprehension, Dyslexic Children, Remedial Programme