SLD In Reading

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Research-based potential causes of SLD in reading
The author points out issues that have been identified with students exhibiting reading challenges in secondary grades. There has since been a great amount of research that discusses the potential causes of this deficiencies. It was concluded that the lack of techniques used to assist students with reading, vocabulary and writing comprehension makes it difficult to understand materials. Students with reading challenges are often two grade levels behind their peers. Despite attempts to provide students with reading mediation, they continue to show reading problems (Vaughn, Swanson, Solis, n.d).
Chall explained that... (as cited in Leach, Scarborough, & Rescorla, 2003; Nation & Snowling, 1998; Vaughn, Linan-Thompson, & Hickman, 2003), “(1) Older students with reading difficulties were provided insufficiently powerful intervention at the elementary level and, though they made gains, were inadequate, requiring further intervention as they progress through the grades; (2) older students made gains on foundation skills involving word reading, then demonstrated problems with reading comprehension in …show more content…

The potential challenges researchers face is that writing skills gets far less instructional attention than different subjects, particularly in the lower and middle school grades, where more of the focus is on increasing higher test scores in reading and mathematics (Baker, Chard, Ketterlin-Geller, Apichatabutra, and Doabler, 2009; Schumaker and Deshler, 2009). Researchers have seen several changes based on experimental research on students with LD written expression and determined that there is enough evidence to support the effectiveness of self-directed techniques when used with

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