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Phonics And Spelling Intervention For Children With Intellectual Disabilities, Bridget Leutzinger
Phonics And Spelling Intervention For Children With Intellectual Disabilities, Bridget Leutzinger
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The current study is a replication and adaptation of Lemons and colleagues (2018) by using an explicit, adapted version of the SPARK curriculum to assess its effectiveness on the literacy outcomes for students with Down Syndrome. The primary purpose was to determine the effectiveness of the explicit reading intervention package (independent variable) on letter-sound knowledge (dependent variable) in elementary students with DS. The secondary purpose was to evaluate whether the explicit spelling intervention of letter-sound correspondence generalized the spelling skills of whole taught and untaught words. Two students, ages 10 and 11, participated in a multiple probe across lessons single-case …