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Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Behavioural study.: Phonological awareness training will be for 7 weeks, 2 sessions per week. Each session lasts for 30 minutes. It is a paper pen method of training, done one to one ba
Sponsors
NCERT
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. The child should meet the age and Grade criteria 2. The child should belong to schools with Kannada Medium of instructions with the curriculum affiliated to Karnataka state board. 3. The child belonging to a family with lower middle to middle socioeconomic status according to Scale for measuring the socioeconomic status of a family (Venkatesan, 2009). 4. The childâ??s parents should bear minimum literacy level of 10th standard.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. The child with history or complaint of significant speech, language, hearing, developmental, intellectual, and neurological disorders ascertained using WHO ten-question disability screening checklist (Singhi, Kumar, Malhi, & Kumar, 2007). 2. The child with language based reading difficulties based on â??Early identification of language based reading disability checklistâ?? (Catts, 1997). 3. The child with irregular school attendance. 4. The child with a history of change in the medium of instruction.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Outcomes of this intervention study ascertain the effectiveness of phonological awareness training on word decoding abilities in first standard typical children learning to read Kannada. Additionally, the developed phonological awareness training module will enable the clinicians to employ phonological awareness training more explicitly and systematically for the children learning to read Kannada.Timepoint: At the end of the study | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Professionals will know whether to consider phonological awareness training along with the regular classroom teaching to improve reading skills in typically developing children. Based on the results, it can be ascertained that, whether phonological awareness training can be considered on children who are at-risk to develop reading disabilities, which is expected to reduce the reading difficulties in children learning to read Kannada, reducing the dropout rates in school.Timepoint: At the end of the study | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public Contactshwetha prabhu
Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Outcome results
None listed