Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBEQ.68.4.Fall.2023

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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VIDBE-Q Volume 68 Issue 4 72 Results Both Laura and Teagan demonstrated progress in their reading fluency going through the steps of the Read Naturally process with adaptations. Laura met her 15% fluency improvement goal from baseline in the first two of the three stories. On the third story, she reached a 14% increase. Although the percentage for improvement for story two came out to 41%, this needs to be interpreted with caution. During story two, Laura repeated a line during her cold read. While the repetition was not counted as an error, it added to the length of time it took to read the passage, which affected her initial fluency score. This impacted her percentage improvement calculation with her hot read. Teagan met his 30% fluency improvement goal from baseline in the three stories. For story three, Teagan's fluency improvement jumped to 41%. While the data from this initial pilot study did not extend across more than three repetitions of the Read Naturally process, it provides a starting point from which future studies could use the same adaptations for students with visual impairments to compare percentage improvement in fluency across a longer period of intervention and when compared to fluency measured on materials other than Read Naturally. Table 2 displays the percent improvement in reading fluency for both participants over the three passages.

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