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Article: Research on reading instruction for individuals with significant cognitive disabilities.(Survey)
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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The "science of reading" that has developed over the last 20 years has led to new optimism that, as a nation, we can do better in teaching all students to read (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998). Synthesis reports like Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print (Adams, 1990), Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children (Snow et al.), and Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks far Teaching Children to Read (National Institute for Literacy, 2001) provide important guidance for teaching reading. Although these reports have relevance for teaching individuals with significant cognitive disabilities, most of the guidelines must be adapted for this ...