Putting Struggling Readers on the PHAST Track A Program to Integrate Phonological and Strategy-Based Remedial Reading Instruction and Maximize Outcomes

• Published in: Journal of learning disabilities Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 458 - 476
• Main Authors: Lovett, Maureen W., Lacerenza, Léa, Borden, Susan L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.09.2000; Sage; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Application; Approaches; Biological and medical sciences; Canada; Child; Children; Children with disabilities; Classrooms; Cognition; Combined Modality Therapy; Decoding; Decoding (Reading); Direct instruction; Disability; Dyslexia; Dyslexia - rehabilitation; Early Reading; Educational psychology; Efficacy; Elementary Education; Humans; Identification; Integrated approach; Integrative approach; Intervention; Language Acquisition; Learning; Learning disabilities; Medical sciences; Metacognition; People with disabilities; Phonemic Awareness; Phonics; Phonological awareness; Phonology; Problem Solving; Program Design; Programmes; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Readers; Reading ability; Reading comprehension; Reading Difficulties; Reading disabilities; Reading disabled children; Reading Instruction; Reading Programs; Reading Skills; Reading Strategies; Remedial education; Remedial Reading; Remedial Teaching - methods; Remedial Teaching - trends; Segmentation; Semantics; Sound; Special education; Special education. Orthophony; Speech Disorders - rehabilitation; Studies; Teaching methods; Treatment Outcome; Treatments; Whole Language Approach; Word recognition; Human; Nervous system diseases; Word; Metacognition; Cognition; Identification; Language disorder; Rhyme; Educational program; Communication disorder; Reading; Metalinguistics; Treatment; Information processing; Phonology; Strategy; Neurological disorder; Child; Special education

PHAST (for Phonological and Strategy Training) is a research-based remedial reading program that attempts to capitalize upon current research on reading disabilities and their remediation. The focus of the program is on the primary obstacles to word identification learning and independent decoding t...