Phonemic Awareness Intervention and Attention Efficiency in Children at Risk. Evidence of Effectiveness on Visual Attention and Word Reading. [considerado para publicación en segunda revisión por el editor ]

PORTA, MARÍA ELSA; CARRADA, MARIANA ANDREA; ISON, MIRTA SUSANA

JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

Elsevier

Año: 2009

0022-0965

Using a pretest-posttest comparison-group design, this 20-week study investigated the effects of a phonological awareness training program (PATP) on word reading and attention efficiency (AE) in 57 children (Age=5-to-6 years) at risk. The experimental group received the PATP (EG; n=30). We obtained pretest and posttest measures of phonemic awareness, word reading, and AE. The ANOVA showed significant interaction effects of the PATP and time on word reading and AE. For both groups, posttest AE score means were higher than pretest score means. Pretest measures showed that the AE score mean for the EG was lower than that for the Control Group (CG; n=31); whereas posttest data showed no between-group differences. Contrast analysis showed that the EG gained a greater amount of AE over the CG. Our results indicate that children’s attention efficiency and word reading ability not only improve as they developed, but also increase by means of a PATP.