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An Innovative Program to Enhance Reading Skills and Develop Confidence in Children with Reading disabilities

. Nasser Zidan Asker Al-Shamri & Thamer Hadi Asker Al-Shamri


Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a training program designed to enhance reading skills and confidence among elementary school students with Reading disabilities. The sample consisted of 30 students with Reading disabilities aged between 10 and 13 years. They were divided into two groups (experimental and control). They were all given a reading skills scale, a confidence scale, an intelligence test, Abdul Rahman Bedewi's socioeconomic status scale (2013), Ahmed Awad's diagnosis of Reading disabilities test, and Awad and Awad's (1995) behavioral rating scale for students with learning difficulties, in addition to the training program. The results showed significant differences between the pre- and post-test means of the experimental group on the reading skills scale and the confidence scale in favor of the post-test. There were also significant differences between the mean ranks of the experimental and control groups on the post-test of the reading skills scale and the confidence scale in favor of the experimental group. However, there were no significant differences between the pre- and post-test means of the control group on the reading skills scale and the confidence scale.

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