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Effect of Phonological Awareness treatment on reading abilities in poor readers of Kannada among primary school going childre

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Registration Number
CTRI/2024/07/071328
Lead Sponsor
Deekshitha
Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot Yet Recruiting
Sex
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Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

1) Native Kannada-speaking school-going children or who use Kannada predominantly for communication as per the adapted Child KLEAP-Q questionnaire (Narasimhan et al., 2023) from grades 3 to 7

2) Children studying in Kannada medium schools since the commencement of schooling.

3) Children of either gender are in all grades.

4) No significant pre-existing history of middle ear disorders.

5) Children with intellectually average or above average as per Raven’s Progressive Matrices

6) Children who score below 1.5 S.D on word reading accuracy measures appropriate to his or her chronological age and intellectual abilities.

7) Having deficits in at least one of the four domains Akshara Knowledge, Syllable awareness, Phonological awareness and RAN

8) Children with normal or corrected-to normal vision.

9) Children with hearing sensitivity within normal limits (hearing thresholds =25 dBHL at audiometric

octave frequencies, i.e., 250 to 8000 Hz).

Exclusion Criteria

1) Children with a history of neurological, speech, language, hearing, cognitive, or motor difficulties or any such deficits reported or observed by the class teachers as on the WHO ten-question disability screening checklist.

2) Children with significant social and/or emotional problems affecting school

activities (on Strengths and Difficulties questionnaire, Goodman, 2010)

3) Children with a history of otologic, neurological, and auditory processing

deficits.

4) Children who cannot follow the instructions even after the three repetitions and/or rephrasing, owing to apparent attention deficits and hyperactivity.

5) Poor attendance in the school records

6) Children whose reading abilities fall below the 15th percentile for their grade in word reading accuracy measures (Nag & Snowling, 2012)

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
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