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These activities support reading fluency development by improving
students' word recognition skills. This is important because readers with poor
or inaccurate word recognition will need to allocate more cognitive resources
to decoding words and, in turn, have less resources available to devote to
understanding what they read. Many children with visual impairments
demonstrate poor fluency with correspondingly low levels of comprehension
skill (Corn, et al., 2002; Trent & Truan, 1997; Wormsley, 1996). Without
appropriate interventions, young struggling braille readers may develop
chronic problems with reading fluency which, in turn, may discourage these
children from reading because it is laborious, resulting in reduced reading
practice and a cycle of ongoing underachievement (Barlow-Brown &
Connelly, 2002; Forster, 2009).
The strategies above can help motivate students with visual
impairments to read because they are highly interactive. Other
recommendations for enhancing reading fluency for users of Braille include
the use of high interest reading materials, guided, repeated oral reading of
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