Effect of PREP Intervention on RAN in Children with Reading Disability in Kannada

By : Surendranath P. Nishanimut

Page No: 43-54

Abstract
A group of 104 children with reading disability (RD) in Kannada were assessed using Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) and Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN). A select group of 80 children with RD were divided equally in to four groups. The three groups were treatment groups who received intervention and a control group of children with RD who were not included for the remediation. The objective of the present study was to train the participants of the treatment groups for about 25 hours of intervention using PASS Reading Enhancement Program (PREP). After the intervention a post RAN test was conducted. One-way ANOVA was conducted to test the gain mean differences among the four groups. The gains were statistically significant. The paired t tests and Cohen’s d revealed that there was significant improvement in the performance on RAN tasks by all the treatment groups. The study concludes that PREP training enhances RAN speed.

Author :
Surendranath P. Nishanimut : The author is a doctoral student and has 20 years of experience as a special educator, training children with Learning Disability. He is the Founder secretary and Chief Coordinator of Samveda Training & Research Centre®, Davangere, Karnataka, India, a non-profit organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of children with Learning Disabilities. www.samveda.org