2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of a reading ability test and education programs for learning disabilities.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19730563
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Special needs education
Research Institution	Tohoku Fukushi University
Principal Investigator	後藤紗織 Tohoku Fukushi University, 総合福祉学部, 助教 (30438551)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	学習障害 / 読解 / 読解能力検査 / 小学生
Research Abstract	A test to reveal acquisition levels of reading ability for elementary school students was created and conducted on about 2600 elementary students. As one characteristic of this test, the same problems can be used to all students uniformly from first grade to sixth grade, and the result can reveal which grade each student's acquisition of reading ability belongs to. Based on the result, we created a teaching program to improve reading ability and conducted a test on elementary students who are weak in reading. An evaluation test was conducted before and after teaching, and as a result, significant improvement was admitted in all three of the studied students.

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