Young Adult Literacy Problems: Prevalence and Treatment

青少年识字问题：患病率和治疗

• 批准号: 6594245
• 负责人: Frank Balch Wood
• 金额: $ 63.03万
• 依托单位: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-25 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6594245
• 关键词: academic achievement; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; comprehension; curriculum; dyslexia; human subject; language; measurement; motivation; phonology; reading disorder; speech; teacher; teaching; training; vocabulary; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Functional illiteracy in the young adult population (ages 18 to 25) is not only a drain on the nation's economic productivity; it is also documented as a major obstacle to adequate health care and a major independent risk factor for depression and suicide. The proposed research, responsive to an NIH request for applications, has two major phases (1) determine the prevalence of poor reading skills in the young adult population; and (2) compare treatment regimes for efficacy. The latter is accomplished by a design that will permit the isolation of effective types of instruction in four areas known to be crucial to reading in children, and suspected to be so in adults; (a) phonological decoding (sounding out words), (b) fluency (i.e., automatic "translation" from the letter code to the sound code and ultimately to the meaning; (c) vocabulary; and (d) text comprehension. It is expected that the different types of instruction will be differentially effective for persons with different skill profiles of strength and weakness.

说明(申请人提供)：青壮年人口(18岁至25岁)中的功能性文盲不仅是国家经济生产力的消耗；它还被记录为充分医疗保健的主要障碍和抑郁症和自杀的主要独立风险因素。应美国国立卫生研究院的申请，这项拟议的研究有两个主要阶段(1)确定阅读技能低下在年轻人中的流行率；(2)比较治疗方案的有效性。后者是通过以下设计实现的：(A)语音解码(读出单词)；(B)流利性(即从字母代码到声音代码并最终到意义的自动“翻译”)；(C)词汇；(D)文本理解。预计不同类型的教学将对具有不同技能特征的人产生不同的效果。