Results After Intervention

Data was taken over ten days during small groups phonics instruction.  Whole group instruction was completed by the special educator and the class was then split into two groups to work on specific skills with the special educator and instructional assistant, respectively. In the small group, Ian's additional adult support (personal assistant) was with him at all times to assist with fine motor tasks.  Data was taken by the special educator and the additional adult support to maintain data reliability.  The data was gathered around three of the skills where Ian has made the least progress this school year; beginning sounds, ending sounds, and rhyming. 

Beginning, Ending, and Rhyming Sounds Activities were created using Classroom Suite by Intellitools. The benefits of this program are that it provides Ian with multiple means of representation; he is able to experience these concepts through text, graphics, and sounds, multiple means of expression; he has a different method to demonstrate concept mastery, and universal access support; Ian was able to use adapted keyboard and adapted mouse.   I also hypothesized that Ian would be more functionally independent, given the decrease of fine motor demands. 

Beginning Sounds

Ian completed each activity in all three modes of Classroom Suite; SHOW ME, PRACTICE, and CHALLENGE. Progress was monitored and data was recorded during the CHALLENGE MODE. The 

computer activity addressed the following objectives;

• Recognition of letter-sound correspondence
• Isolation and identification of beginning sounds in words
• Recognition of objects whose names have the same beginning sounds
• Identification of upper and lowercase letters
• Increase vocabulary

The activity consisted of matching and sorting 10 objects by their beginning sounds.   Below is data, taken over 10 days. 

Ian required 2.2 verbal cues, ranging from 1-3 cues.  He required an average of 1 physical prompt, ranging from 0-2.  On average Ian was 65% accuracy, ranging between 30-100%.  Ian increased his average accuracy by 42% over 10 days. 

Ending Sounds

Ian completed each activity in all three modes of Classroom Suite; SHOW ME, PRACTICE, and CHALLENGE. Progress was monitored and data was recorded during the CHALLENGE MODE. The 

computer activity addressed the following objectives;

- Identification of ending sounds

-Identification of sound and spelling patterns

The activity consisted of matching and sorting 10 objects by their ending sounds.   Below is data, taken over 10 days. 

Ian required an average of 3 verbal cues, ranging from 2-5 cues.  On average, Ian needed 1.9 physical prompts, ranging from 1-3 prompts.  Ian's accuracy was an average of 26% ranging from  0-40%.  As his accuracy increased, physical and verbal prompts decreased.   Over 10 days, Ian increased his average accuracy by 20%.  

Rhyming

Ian completed each activity in all three modes of Classroom Suite; SHOW ME, PRACTICE, and CHALLENGE. Progress was monitored and data was recorded during the CHALLENGE MODE. The 

computer activity addressed the following objectives;

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  Students will build phonemic awareness.
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  Students will identify words by rhyming sound. 
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  Students will match words by sound.

The activity consisted of matching and sorting 10 objects by their rhyming sounds.   Below is data, taken over 10 days. 

Ian required an average of 4 verbal prompts, ranging from 2-6 cues.  On average, Ian was 38% accurate, ranging from 30-50%.   Ian increased his accuracy by 11% over ten days.  

Analysis

Verbal Cues

Prior to the intervention, Ian needed an average of 4.95 verbal cues, but after the intervention he required 3.1 verbal cues, a 38% decrease. 

Physical Prompts

Prior to the intervention, Ian required an average of 5.8 physical prompts.  After the implementation of intervention; which consisted of adapted keyboard, adapted mouse, and Classroom Suite phonemic awareness activities, Ian required 1.45 physical prompts; a decrease in 75%. 

Accuracy

Prior to the intervention, Ian was about 18.6% accurate.  After 10 days of intervention Ian demonstrated an average of 43% accuracy, an increase of 24 percent.