From Spring 2009, Down Syndrome Education International will carry out afour-year study with the Centre for Reading and Language at YorkUniversity trialling a structured reading instruction programme with anoral language programme to improve language development in children withDown Syndrome and who attend mainstream schools.
Using existing classroom resources, teaching assistants in around 50schools will be taught how to provide practical classroom interventionsto Down Syndrome children in one-to-one sessions of reading instruction.Professor Sue Buckley, the charity's director of science and research,said the approaches had been tailored to meet the specific needs ofchildren who have Down Syndrome.
Professor Charles Hulme said, 'We expect this approach to be highlybeneficial to these children's reading skills.'
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