Children with intellectual disabilities normally have significantly reduced intellectual capacities and adaptation skills. Their cognitive development is delayed, affecting the development of their reading literacy. These children develop a low level of reading, which means that their reading is not fluent enough to ensure reading comprehension. In these cases, reading is not one of the methods of how to acquire new knowledge. Continuous and intensive implementation of carefully selected activities can significantly contribute to the improvement of reading. In the master's thesis, we focused on how to encourage the development of reading skills in three individuals with intellectual disabilities, attending the fourth grade of separate special education with a lower education standard. We drew up a program, designed to determine to what extent reading of these three individuals, who have problems with reading, will improve after a three-month continuous program, encompassing everyday intensive implementation of activities, aimed at improving reading literacy. Prior to the implementation of our activities, we examined the children's reading skills with individual tasks taken from the Reading and Writing Disorder Test (T-MBP) (Šali, 1975) and with texts from the CBM Reading Fluency Test (Košir, 2011a), based on which a reading program was set up. In order to improve reading fluency, we selected some activities within the program and performed them at our meetings. As we wanted to monitor the achieved goals set in the program, we kept a record of results related to individual activities and noted any particularities. Once we conducted all the meetings, we tested the pupils' reading fluency with the same tasks as at the beginning. By comparing the initial and final results of the tests, we confirmed that everyday reading activities have a significant impact on the reduction of reading errors, on the improvement of reading fluency and, consequently, on the comprehension of the read content in individuals with reduced intellectual capacities.
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