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Effective Reading Instruction Strategies For Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities, April Scruggs
Effective Reading Instruction Strategies For Students With Significant Cognitive Disabilities, April Scruggs
LC Journal of Special Education
Recent legislation and focus on research-based instruction has lead to a more unified drive to teaching students with significant cognitive disabilities how to read because we know now that most of these students can learn how to read through intensive instruction using a variety of different strategies to teach the essential components of reading (Browder et al., 2006). As reported by Browder et al. (2006, p. 393), the National Reading Panel (NRP, 2000), “identified five essential components of reading instruction: (a) phonemic awareness, (b) phonics, (c) fluency, (d) vocabulary, and (e) comprehension.” The purpose of this paper is to identify …