Online Video Training for Teachers to Improve Reading Skills in Children Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- Enrolling By Invitation
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 70
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Early reading skills outcome
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of this study is to investigate , via a randomized control trial (RCT), the effectiveness of an online video training platform designed for teachers to support the improvement of basic reading skills of children with intellectual disabilities (ID) who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). This intervention will include 14 schools and 70 students with ID who require AAC age 6-14 years old. The research question is:
- What is the difference between online video training and in-person training on improving word-level readig skills and phonological awareness?
The students will work with a reading material, Reading for All, that follow the strategies of Accessible Literacy Learning, developed by Janice Light and David McNaughton. Reading for All is based on the research of Janice Light and David McNaughton. The reading material are adapted for AAC-users and the students can answer with pointing or their AAC-systems. Teachers will implement the instructions at the students familiar place at school for three to five days, each week, for a year.
The reading material consist of tasks in sound blending, letter-sound correspondence, phoneme segmentation, sight words, shared reading and decoding. The teachers will use evidence based, systematic and explicit instructions and immediate and corrective feedback
详细描述
Children with disabilities who require AAC may experiance challenges in various areas development, including communication skills, speech, language, cognitive and conceptual development, literacy, social participation, access to education, and overall quality of lifte. Acquiring reading skills may lead to higher levels of communication. Students who require AAC may be more dependent on others to provide and teach symbols to represent their language. Acquireing reading skills, may incrace the possibility to independently express themselves, and increace their access to for example text based communication devices.
There is a laci of evidence-based reading material adapted for students with ID who require AAC.
Primary outcomes will be assessed six times every two months over one year. The reading test are based on the reading material, which will be validated before the beginning of the trial.
Secondary outcome: four-time points (baseline, fourth, eighth, and twelfth month).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Investigator)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 6 Years 至 14 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •ages 6-14 years,
- •diagnosed with intellectual disability, confirmed by multidisciplinary assessments carried out by the Child rehabilitation service,
- •not have a functional speech, i.e. require AAC to understand and make oneself understood,
- •must use AAC as their primary form of communication,
- •cannot follow ordinary curricula (LK20) but have their own education plan.
排除标准
- •having a severe visual impairment and not being able to decode single words (e.g., severe hearing impairment).
结局指标
主要结局
Early reading skills outcome
时间窗: From intervention start to the end of intervention at twelve months
Primary outcome will be assessed six times every two months over one year. * Sound blending \[score ranging from 0 to 15\] involves testing the student's ability to combine individual sounds into words. * Letter-sound correspondence \[score ranging from 0 to 25\] involves testing the students' ability to correspond between the sounds of speech (phonemes) and the written letters representing speech (graphemes). * Phoneme segmentation \[score ranging from 0 to 20\] tests students' ability to segment the first phoneme of the word (e.g., s for sun).
次要结局
- Reading outcome(From intervention start to the end of intervention at twelve months)
- Vocabulary(From intervention start to the end of intervention at twelve months)