Journal of Down Syndrome & Chromosome Abnormalities
Open Access
ISSN: 2472-1115
ISSN: 2472-1115
Pelatti Yeager C
Speech-Language Pathology and Deaf Studies,
Towson, Maryland
Tanzania
Research Article
Investigating Oral Reading Miscues Produced by Students with Down Syndrome: A Descriptive Study
Author(s): Pelatti Yeager C and Guevara SandraPelatti Yeager C and Guevara Sandra
Objective: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) exhibit difficulties with oral language and reading development. Research is needed to understand the language and reading connections of students with DS to develop effective interventions that ensure academic success in this population. The purpose of this present study was to investigate the oral language and reading processes of six students (mean age: 16; 3) with DS by analysing the oral miscues produced while reading a storybook. Method: Using a miscue analysis approach, students with DS independently read a storybook out loud and then were asked to retell the story. Oral reading miscues were analysed within the context of the sentence and the entire text to determine semantic and syntactic acceptability, meaning change, correction and graphic and phonemic similarity. In addition, thematic analysis was incorporated to provide an in-dep.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2472-1115.1000127