Impact of Phonological Awareness Training on Reading Skills in students Suspected as Dyslexic

This study examines the impact of phonological awareness training on reading skills in male students suspected for having dyslexia.

In this quasiexperimental research, first the students suspected for having dyslexia in the second grade of elementary school in Mashhad were chosen, and assigned randomly into two experimental and control groups (each group consisted 20 students). In this study, Phonological Awareness Test (Dastjerdi & Soleymani), and Reading Diagnosis Test(Fallahchay) were used before and after training. In addition the experiment group received phonological awareness training.

The results revealed that phonological awareness skills training could increase reading skills in comprehension and not word-recognition.

This study stress that training phonological awareness can improve reading abilities.