Keynote - An Investigation on the Teaching Practice of Reading Comprehension Skills for...

UNITE SPLD CONFERENCE 2017 - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION An Investigation on the Teaching Practice of Reading Comprehension Skills for Individuals with Dyslexia in Singapore 1. Dr Tan Wah Pheow, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore 2. Lois Lim, Dyslexia Association of Singapore Reading comprehension is defined as the process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language (Snow, 2002). Individuals with dyslexia usually have difficulties processing speech sounds in words (Vellutino, Fletcher, Snowling & Scanlon, 2004), leading to problems with word recognition, which may become a bottleneck that impedes reading comprehension. While dyslexia can be associated with poor reading comprehension (Bishop & Snowling, 2004), a diagnosis of dyslexia does not always equate to poor reading comprehension, as it is possible for some individuals with dyslexia to find ways to compensate for their errors in reading individual words during reading comprehension (Snowling & Hulme, 2012). Thus, it is important for educators to implement relevant intervention programs to train individuals with dyslexia the necessary metacognitive skills to ensure that they can still perform reading comprehension proficiently despite being dyslexic. For the current talk, I will present a short review from the research literature on intervention programs of reading comprehension skills to individuals with dyslexia. At the same time, I will also present the findings of a collaborative project between the Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS) and Temasek Polytechnic (TP). In this project, education therapists from DAS were surveyed on two main areas: (a) the types of reading comprehension skills that were taught and (b) the types of learning resources used in teaching reading comprehension skills. Based on the findings from the study, I will elaborate on the following issues: (1) A description of the frequency of teaching different types of reading skills to individuals with dyslexia, together with how difficult the education therapists think it is to teach each reading comprehension skill, and their perception and reasons on the relative importance of each reading comprehension skill (2) A description of the usage of different types of equipment and resources in teaching reading comprehension skills, and at the same time identifying several gaps and issues with the availability of resources required to teach reading comprehension skills to individuals with dyslexia (3) Identification of possible area for improvements in terms of teaching reading comprehension skills to individuals with dyslexia based on a comparison of existing practices with a review of theoretical frameworks

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