Development of reading and arithmetic skills across Grades 1 to 4 in two groups of children receiving part-time special education
Virinkoski, R., Eklund, K., Lerkkanen, M.-K., Holopainen, L., & Aro, M. (2021). Development of reading and arithmetic skills across Grades 1 to 4 in two groups of children receiving part-time special education. Learning and Individual Differences, 85, 101956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101956
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This study investigated why some Finnish students receive part-time special education in Grade 1, duration of that support, and its relation to student reading fluency, reading comprehension, and arithmetic fluency development. The participants included two groups from Grade 1 receiving part-time special education (1–2 years vs. 3–4 years) and a control group comprising the remaining participants from the study. Teachers identified reading and expressive language difficulties as the main reasons for part-time special education in Grade 1. By Grade 4, students who received support until Grade 1 or 2 caught up the level of the control group especially in reading fluency. Students who had received support until Grade 3 or 4 exhibited more persistent and overlapping difficulties with attention, receptive language, memory, and motivation. Additionally, by Grade 4, differences from the control group remained statistically significant for all three skills. Implications for enhancing special education interventions for students with persistent and overlapping learning difficulties are discussed.
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