Comparison of Reading Literacy than Students with Visual Impairment and Normal Students

Objective: If we consider reading, writing and accounting as three substantial skills in primary school, reading will be most important skill of them and therefore, understanding reading processes and its methods is required. The aim of this study was to assay improvement of reading in fourth grade...

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Main Authors: Ali Asghar Kako-Joibari, Seyyed Mohammad Shobeiri, Hajar Shoa'ei, Tayyebeh Mohtashami
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Published: University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Rehabilitation
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Online Access:http://rehabilitationj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-981-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1
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author Ali Asghar Kako-Joibari
Seyyed Mohammad Shobeiri
Hajar Shoa'ei
Tayyebeh Mohtashami
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description Objective: If we consider reading, writing and accounting as three substantial skills in primary school, reading will be most important skill of them and therefore, understanding reading processes and its methods is required. The aim of this study was to assay improvement of reading in fourth grade primary school students with visual impairment and comparison with the normal peer students. Materials & Methods: The current research was a Causal-Comparative study and performed by the use of PIRLS (2006) international standardized booklet as instrument. Twenty seven students with fourth grade primary exceptional school in Tehran, Rey and Qom cities were selected by means of non-convenience sampling and compared with the equal students in adjacent schools selected by simple random method. The independent samples t-test method was used in statistical analysis. Results: In the levels of reading literacy (P=0.017) and understanding of literal contents, there was significant difference between students with visual impairment and normal students (P=0.07) whereas in understanding of information contents there was not significant difference (P=0.053). Conclusion: The visual impairment was effective on reading literacy therefore there is necessity to special attention to students with acute visual impairment and reviewing their reading programs. It is recommended that teachers and authorities provide more text in brail for blind children and utilize modern assistive methods to improve their reading literacy.
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spelling doaj.art-c9fde37795624b25ab6be5961c7c85d52022-12-21T18:39:27ZfasUniversity of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation SciencesJournal of Rehabilitation1607-29601607-29602014-01-011445865Comparison of Reading Literacy than Students with Visual Impairment and Normal StudentsAli Asghar Kako-Joibari0Seyyed Mohammad Shobeiri1Hajar Shoa'ei2Tayyebeh Mohtashami3 Payame Noor University Payame Noor University Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. Payame Noor University Objective: If we consider reading, writing and accounting as three substantial skills in primary school, reading will be most important skill of them and therefore, understanding reading processes and its methods is required. The aim of this study was to assay improvement of reading in fourth grade primary school students with visual impairment and comparison with the normal peer students. Materials & Methods: The current research was a Causal-Comparative study and performed by the use of PIRLS (2006) international standardized booklet as instrument. Twenty seven students with fourth grade primary exceptional school in Tehran, Rey and Qom cities were selected by means of non-convenience sampling and compared with the equal students in adjacent schools selected by simple random method. The independent samples t-test method was used in statistical analysis. Results: In the levels of reading literacy (P=0.017) and understanding of literal contents, there was significant difference between students with visual impairment and normal students (P=0.07) whereas in understanding of information contents there was not significant difference (P=0.053). Conclusion: The visual impairment was effective on reading literacy therefore there is necessity to special attention to students with acute visual impairment and reviewing their reading programs. It is recommended that teachers and authorities provide more text in brail for blind children and utilize modern assistive methods to improve their reading literacy.http://rehabilitationj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-981-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1Reading literacy Informational texts Literary texts Visual impairment
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Hajar Shoa'ei
Tayyebeh Mohtashami
Comparison of Reading Literacy than Students with Visual Impairment and Normal Students
Journal of Rehabilitation
Reading literacy
Informational texts
Literary texts
Visual impairment
title Comparison of Reading Literacy than Students with Visual Impairment and Normal Students
title_full Comparison of Reading Literacy than Students with Visual Impairment and Normal Students
title_fullStr Comparison of Reading Literacy than Students with Visual Impairment and Normal Students
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title_short Comparison of Reading Literacy than Students with Visual Impairment and Normal Students
title_sort comparison of reading literacy than students with visual impairment and normal students
topic Reading literacy
Informational texts
Literary texts
Visual impairment
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