The effectiveness of a 2-year supplementary tutor-assisted computerized intervention on the reading development of beginning readers at risk for reading difficulties: A randomized controlled trial

Dyslexia

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 256-280

  Regtvoort, Anne ^a   Zijlstra, Haytske ^b   Van Der Leij, Aryan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

computer supported; non professional tutors; one to one instruction; poor readers; sustained early intervention; treatment integrity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PHONEME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH THERAPY; THERAPY EFFECT; WORD RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED; NON-PROFESSIONAL TUTORS; ONE-TO-ONE INSTRUCTION; POOR READERS; SUSTAINED EARLY INTERVENTION; TREATMENT INTEGRITY;

CHILD; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DYSLEXIA; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; READING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84886058578     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: 10990909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.1465     Document Type: Article

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