Abstract

GOMEZ ZAPATA, Esther; DEFIOR, Sylvia  and  SERRANO, Francisca. Improving reading fluency in dyslexia: designing a Spanish intervention program. Escritos de Psicología [online]. 2011, vol.4, n.2, pp.65-73. ISSN 1989-3809.

This article describes the process of planning an intervention program aimed at improving reading fluency in children with developmental dyslexia. Reading fluency is considered a crucial component in achieving literacy, especially regarding its role in facilitating reading comprehension. Improving reading fluency is particularly important for children with developmental dyslexia as they have difficulties automatizing word recognition. These difficulties lead to suboptimal reading skills that ultimately affect reading comprehension. This study shows the steps involved in planning an intervention program that combines accelerated and repeated reading, two methodologies commonly used to improve fluency. This is a structured and sequential training programme which includes syllable, word and text reading. The aim is to automatize the reading of sublexical units-which are easily recognizable in Spanish-to facilitate faster and more efficient word recognition. This will improve fluency when reading full texts. The program also includes metaphonological ability training.

Keywords : Reading Fluency; Dyslexia; Literacy Training.

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