Abstract

ESCOTTO CORDOVA, Eduardo Alejandro. Intervention Program for the Development of Reading and Writing Skills in a Dyslexic Girl. Pensam. psicol. [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.1, pp.55-69. ISSN 1657-8961.

Objective. Developmental dyslexia (DD) is characterized as a neuropsychological disorder that presents difficulties in phonological processing, particularly in the use of phonological awareness and mastery of the phoneme - grapheme relationship. This paper presents the results of a program aimed at the acquisition of reading and writing skills in a child with DD 6 years, 11 months, who received a weekly session of strengthening her literacy process over a period of 11 months. Method. The exercise program consisted of three types of tasks: phonological awareness, spatial visual praxis and phono-articulation skills. The girl's reading and writing learning abilities were evaluated before and after the intervention. Results. After the intervention, the child showed an improvement in her ability to read and write meaningful sentences, but continued to have initial difficulties in addressing extended texts (i.e. of more than two pages). In the latter case, the reading was characterized by slow and occasional syllabic reading. Conclusion. The program enabled the acquisition of literacy, but strengthening processes such as working memory and internal language in silent reading are required, since they are necessary components for reading and writing.

Keywords : Dyslexia; phonological awareness; reading comprehension.

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