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4.3.4 Computer-based screening tests for dyslexia ........................................................ 88
4.3.5 Dyslexia Profiling Tests......................................................................................... 90
4.3.6 Identifying visual stress ......................................................................................... 92
4.4 CONCLUSIONS................................................................................................................ 93
5 READING RECOVERY..................................................................................................... 95
5.1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 95
5.1.1 Scope...................................................................................................................... 95
5.1.2 What is Reading Recovery? ................................................................................... 95
5.1.3 Rationale and pegagogy ........................................................................................ 96
5.1.4 Reading Recovery and the teaching of early reading............................................ 97
5.1.5 Pressures to increase phonics in Reading Recovery ............................................. 97
5.1.6 The place of phonics currently in Reading Recovery in the UK............................ 98
5.2 EVALUATIONS OF READING RECOVERY IN THE REST OF THE WORLD......................... 100
5.2.1 Large-scale international evaluations and reviews............................................. 100
5.2.2 RCT and quasi-experimental studies of Reading Recovery................................. 101
5.3 READING RECOVERY IN THE UK ................................................................................. 104
5.3.1 Reading Recovery in the UK before Every Child a Reader (ECaR).................... 104
5.3.2 Every Child a Reader (ECaR) ............................................................................. 105
5.4 QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH STUDIES ON READING RECOVERY IN THE UK...... 106
5.4.1 The London and Surrey study, 1992–96 .............................................................. 106
5.4.2 Every Child a Reader in London, 2005–06 ......................................................... 107
5.4.3 Comparing the effects of Reading Recovery and phonologically based schemes 108
5.5 LONG-TERM EFFECTS................................................................................................... 109
5.5.1 Long-term follow-ups of Reading Recovery in England...................................... 110
5.5.2 Key Stage 1 results of Reading Recovery children in England, 2003– 07........... 111
5.5.3 Reading Recovery children’s standardised reading test results.......................... 117
5.6 CONCLUSIONS.............................................................................................................. 118
5.6.1 The efficacy of Reading Recovery........................................................................ 118
5.6.2 Reading Recovery as an intervention for children with dyslexia ........................ 118
6 COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND SUPPORT OF OLDER DYSLEXIC PUPILS 121
6.1 DYSLEXIC DIFFICULTIES IN SECONDARY SCHOOL ....................................................... 121
6.2 USE OF COMPUTERS IN INSTRUCTION .......................................................................... 122
6.2.1 The advantages of computer assisted learning (CAL) for dyslexics.................... 123
6.2.2 Speech feedback................................................................................................... 124
6.2.3 Integrated Learning Systems ............................................................................... 125
6.3 RESEARCH ON COMPUTER-BASED INTERVENTIONS WITH DYSLEXIC CHILDREN ......... 125
6.4 STUDIES OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY WITH OLDER DYSLEXIC STUDENTS................... 128
6.5 CONCLUSIONS.............................................................................................................. 128
REFERENCES .......................................................................................................................... 130
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