ERIC Number: ED655178
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 121
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ISBN: 979-8-5570-1049-8
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Language-Literacy Intervention through Telepractice for School-Age Children: A Single Case Design Study
Shih-Yuan Liang
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University
Telepractice holds substantial promise in facilitating equitable access and cost-effective services for all school-age children, regardless of geographic locations, physical conditions, or socioeconomic status. The overwhelmingly positive evidence on telepractice intervention outcomes has been called into questions by several study limitations: flawed research design, inadequate measurement, and not documenting scoring reliability and treatment fidelity. Few studies examined the feasibility of delivering language-literacy interventions via telepractice to primary-school children. This study employed a single-case, multiple-probe design across four primary-school struggling readers to study the functional relation between a reading comprehension monitoring intervention Does It Make Sense and child self-corrections in independent oral reading. Participants completed two to three weekly, one-on-one therapy sessions via ZOOM across 7 to 10 weeks. The probe assessments included a 4-minute reading task and the CUBED Narrative Language Measures to characterize reading self-corrections and reading comprehension respectively. We reported evidence for a functional relation and adequate procedural fidelity and probe assessment reliability in support of the feasibility of delivering language-literacy intervention for school-age children via telepractice. Transferred effects on distal outcomes, participating families' feedback, facilitating factors and barriers to telepractice are overviewed. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Telecommunications, Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness, Videoconferencing, Languages, Literacy, Independent Reading, Oral Reading, Bibliotherapy
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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