Colored Overlays and the Reading Fluency of Middle School Students with Cognitive Disabilities

Abstract

Reading is an essential life skill that is a struggle for many students with cognitive disabilities. This quantitative study will examine the effects of colored overlay on the reading fluency of students with cognitive disabilities compared to students with Specific This study will seek to detetmine if those positive results can also be found for students with cognitive disabilities.• • •

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