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Tutoring learning disabled children using cognitive strategy training techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2015

Robyn Gillies
Robyn Gillies*
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Ipswich District Special Services Centre
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Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of a peer tutoring program that was implemented to improve the reading skills of a group of learning disabled children. The study used peer tutoring strategies in conjunction with cognitive strategy training techniques to change the reading behaviours of both the tutors and tutees. Emphasis was attached to ensuring that reciprocal benefits would be derived by both the tutors and tutees by sharing a task on which there was room for both to gain in skill. The results indicated that learning disabled children can be tutored by peers who are only slightly better readers and that reading gains accrued to both parties.

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Queensland Journal of Guidance and Counselling , Volume 3 , November 1989 , pp. 15 - 28
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1989

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