THE DEVELOPMENT OF THAI READING AND SPELLING ABILITIES BY USING MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE WITH MULTISENSORY APPROACH FOR DYSLEXIA STUDENTS OF PRATHOMSUKSA 3

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the development of reading andspelling abilities of Dyslexia students by using a multimedia package with a multisensory approach,2) to compare the abilities of reading and spelling of Dyslexia students before and after using the multimedia package with the multisensory approach. The target group were 3 studentsin third grade at Salamwitaya School, Thern, Lampang Province during the second semester of 2019 academic year. The target group were Dyslexia students with an average intelligence quotient and donothave multiple disabilities, selected through purposivesampling. The research instruments were5 units of an individualized education plan: unit 1 pronunciation of consonants,unit 2 pronunciation of vowels, unit 3 spelling without final consonants, unit 4 spelling with final consonants,andunit 5word formation and reading skill test. The data were analyzed by means, standard deviationsand the Wilcoxon Method-Pairs Signed-Ranks test. It wasfound that thedevelopment of the reading and spelling abilities of thetarget group wasat avery good level,and thereading and spelling abilities of the target groupafter thetreatmentwere significantly higher before the treatment at the levelof .05 of statistical significance