Research Article

The effect of auditory perception training on reading performance of the 8-9-year old female students with dyslexia: A preliminary study

Abstract

Background and Aim: Dyslexia is the most common learning disability. One of the main factors have role in this disability is auditory perception imperfection that cause a lot of problems in education. We aimed to study the effect of auditory perception training on reading performance of female students with dyslexia at the third grade of elementary school.
Methods: Thirty-eight female students at the third grade of elementary schools of Khomeinishahr City, Iran, were selected by multistage cluster random sampling of them, 20 students which were diagnosed dyslexic by Reading test and Wechsler test, devided randomly to two equal groups of experimental and control. For experimental group, during ten 45-minute sessions, auditory perception training were conducted, but no intervention was done for control group. An participants were reassessed by Reading test after the intervention (pre- and post- test method). Data were analyed by covariance test.
Results: The effect of auditory perception training on reading performance (81%) was significant (p<0.0001) for all subtests execpt the separate compound word test.
Conclusion: Findings of our study confirm the hypothesis that auditory perception training effects on students' functional reading. So, auditory perception training seems to be necessary for the students with dyslexia.

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Auditory perception reading practice dyslexic
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Vatandoost N, Yarmohammadian A, Abedi A, Ghaziasgar N, Moghtadaie M. The effect of auditory perception training on reading performance of the 8-9-year old female students with dyslexia: A preliminary study. Aud Vestib Res. 2017;22(4):60-68.