Dyslexic students struggle to learn how to read. Yet, few studies reported on how dyslexic students learn to read. In this respect, special education teachers have adopted a myriad of ways to overcome dyslexic students’ reading problems. To respond to this need, the purpose of this study is to examine how phonology-based reading instruction could help dyslexic students improve their early reading abilities. Grounded in a mixed methods research design, four dyslexic students of primary school were recruited to participate in this study. The results of the study showed that the phonology-based reading instruction had a positive impact on improving the dyslexic students’ early reading abilities, particularly in Bahasa Indonesian-medium reading texts. This suggests that phonology-based reading instruction could effectively be implemented if special education teachers could enact phonological instruction as a prerequisite for identifying the students’ early reading ability and phonics instruction as an instructional reinforcement for building students’ early reading repertoire.

The problem that is currently happening at SD Negeri Babakan 01 in South Tangerang City is that regular teachers at the school in educational services do not involve children with special needs directly so children with special needs who are in the class are not paid attention, coordination with special assistants for children with special needs also not well established, so it is difficult to exchange information about the condition of children with special needs specifically. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions and attitudes of elementary school class teachers as facilitators of inclusive education for children with special needs at SDN Babakan 01 in the city of South Tangerang. The method used in this research   qualitative research with a descriptive method aimed at understanding social phenomena from the perspective of the participants (people from whom the data is taken). Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the perceptions and attitudes of elementary school classroom teachers as facilitators of inclusive education for children with special needs at SD Negeri Babakan 01, South Tangerang city are still not by the system or regulations in carrying out inclusive programs, because there is still a lack of knowledge of classroom teachers about the characteristics of children with special needs can make it difficult for classroom teachers to deliver teaching materials, hinder the learning process in the classroom, and hinder the acceptance of teaching materials delivered by classroom teachers to children with special needs, making it difficult to optimize the potential that exists in children with special needs.

This study aims to determine the impact of phonological instruction interventions on dyslexic students in elementary schools. We tested the effect of phonological instruction on phonological awareness, reading and spelling skills in 4 subjects who had almost similar reading difficulties at different grade levels.   This study used an experimental design method single subject research (SSR). The SSR design used is the A-B-A design which consists of three stages of conditions, namely: A-1 (baseline 1), B (intervention), A-2 (baseline 2). Tests given to measure baseline and intervention results of phonology awareness tests, reading tests and spelling tests. Measurement of ability at the baseline was given as many as 4 sessions while the intervention for 12 sessions. The results showed that phonological instruction had an effect on increasing phonological awareness, reading and spelling skills. The significant effect of phonological instruction interventions suggests that understanding phonological principles is beneficial for students with dyslexia.

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