The effects of remedial reading intervention on the self-perceptions of struggling adolescent and young adult readers from the Ontario Child Welfare system:  A mixed-methods exploration.
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780494273388
Subjects: Young adults -- Ontario.; Young adults -- Ontario.; Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Ontario.; Self-perception in adolescence -- Ontario.; Self-perception -- Ontario.
Description: The purpose of this mixed-method study was to examine and better understand the impact of participating in a 7-week intensive, phonologically-based remedial reading program on the self-perceptions of maltreated adolescent and young adult struggling readers from the Ontario Child-Welfare system. Eleven maltreated youth with reading difficulties aged 15 to 23 years were extensively interviewed both prior to and following intervention about their reading and skill-related self-perceptions. Their responses were analyzed thematically using grounded theory methodology. Independent and paired-samples  t tests were also conducted to measure the impact of intervention on the self-perceptions and reading achievement of these youth and to evaluate whether these variables significantly differed from a group of maltreated youth without reading difficulties (n = 11). Results converged to provide empirical support for the benefits of reading intervention on the self-perceptions and reading achievement of maltreated struggling readers. Implications, limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 3306.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

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