Effectiveness of response to intervention- based Targeted Reading Intervention on Comprehension in students with Specific Learning Disability

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of targeted reading intervention (TRI) on comprehension in students with specific learning disability (SLD). The design of study was quasi experimental pre-test/post-test with control group. The statistical population consisted of all male students with SLD at grade 3 at schools of Dorche city in 2016. The sample included 30 students that were selected by Simple Random Sampling and then assigned into two groups of 15 people (experimental group and control group). The experimental group parents received the targeted reading intervention (Sisson and Sisson, 2014) for 12 sessions and 3 sessions in per week. At this time, the control group didn’t receive any intervention. The data was collected by the NAMA reading and dyslexia test (korminori and Moradi, 2005) and MANCOVA was analyzed. The results showed that TRI was efficient on comprehension was significant with α=0.05 level. Therefore, the targeted reading intervention can be suggested to increase comprehension skills of students with SLD.