1- Phd Student of Psychology and teaching exceptional children, Department of Psychology, Allameh Tabataba’i University of Tehran, Tehran
2- Associate Professor of Psychology and teaching exceptional children, Department of Exceptional psychology, Allameh Tabataba’i University of Tehran, Tehran
3- Assistant Professor of Psychology and teaching exceptional children, Department of Exceptional psychology, , Allameh Tabataba’i University of Tehran, Tehran
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Background and Objective: Dyslexia is one of the most common learning disorders and students with this disorder have a problems in reading skills, which necessitates the design of rehabilitation packages in this field, also present study aimed to Developing a cognitive proficiency rehabilitation package and examine its effectiveness on the reading skills of dyslexic students.
Methods: The present study is a mixed method in terms of method. A qualitative approach was used to develop the educational package, and a quantitative approach and a semi-experimental method with pre-test-post-test and control group were used to measure its effectiveness. The statistical population of the study included 9-11 year old dyslexic male students referring to government centers for learning disorders in Urmia in the academic year 2024-2024 wich were divided into two control and experimental groups using simple random sampling method and completed the dyslexia test (Karami-Nouri & Moradi, 2008), before, after the intervention, and one month after the cognitive proficiency rehabilitation intervention. The data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance and SPSS22 software.
Results: The results of variance analysis showed that cognitive proficiency rehabilitation intervention had a significant effect on the skills of text comprehension (p = 0.009), word reading (p < 0.001), word comprehension (p < 0.001), word chaining (p = 0.027), picture naming (p = 0.011), sound deletion (p = 0.042), and nonword reading (p = 0.030) and there was no significant effect in rhyme, letter signs and Signs of categories.
Conclusion: According to the results obtained, it can be concluded that the designed cognitive proficiency rehabilitation package was effective on the reading skills of dyslexic students; therefore, by focusing on the results of the present study, it is possible to improve the reading skills of these students.