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Paired Reading for foster children: results from a Swedish replication of an English literacy intervention.
- Source :
- Adoption & Fostering; Dec2014, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p361-373, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- A UK literacy intervention – Paired Reading – was replicated in seven Swedish local authorities, with 81 foster children aged 8–12 participating in a 16-week trial. Ability was measured pre/post intervention with age-standardised literacy tests and a short version of the WISC-IV. Results confirm and expand findings from the UK, namely that: almost all foster carers and children completed the programme (attrition 2.4%), average improvement in reading age was 11 months, basically the same as in the UK; younger children (aged 8–9) improved significantly on all four administered standardised reading tests, and on the WISC-IV Vocabulary subtest. Older children (aged 10–12) improved significantly on three of five literacy tests and on the WISC-IV Vocabulary subtest. On the short version of WISC-IV, vocabulary improvements over time reduced the proportion of children who could be classified as having ‘weak cognitive skills’ (IQ<85) from 54% to 36%. This finding is in line with results from other studies, indicating that scores from cognitive tests of pre-teen children in out-of-home care should not be regarded as fixed and can be improved by effective interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CHI-squared test
FOSTER children
LEARNING strategies
LITERACY
READING
REPLICATION (Experimental design)
RESEARCH funding
SPECIAL education
T-test (Statistics)
VOCABULARY
TASK performance
PRE-tests & post-tests
EVALUATION of human services programs
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CHILDREN
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03085759
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Adoption & Fostering
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 99360216
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0308575914553543