Megan Said:

Comprehension Problems....?

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Get into the habit of reading a chapter from a bedtime story with him every night. Let him pick the book from a range of good literature, e.g. books like Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, or Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, or Moby Dick by Herman Melville, or The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas all have a lasting appeal to boys of all ages. The words used in these stories are not always easy, but that isn't important. Its the idea of a story that captures the imagination and leaves the reader or listener waiting for more, that is the incentive. (If you don't care for my book selection, then try some of your own, but don't restrict yourself to so-called children's books. What you want are books that test and stretch his imagination, and his vocabulary.)

You start by sitting beside him so he can see the text, then you read and point to where you are in the text. When you have read so far that he's becoming interested in the story, let him take over the reading with you helping all the time.

All this improves his word recognition and might well induce him to read for himself.

Always remember that all children are different and develop their skills in different ways, and at different rates. If he is reading, don't stop and correct him all the time if he makes mistakes. So long as he gets the gist of a story that's all that's required.

You never can tell, you might become interesed in some of these stories yourself.

Dave Said:

Comprehension Problems....?

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My daughter is 15. She has comprehension problems. Enough to be in "special" classes. She HAS been helped A LOT by a speech pathologist. She goes once a week, and then we have an assignment that we work on with her for that week. Been doing it since preschool when the problem(s) emerged. Our insurance does cover the visits. Hope that helps a little. Despite her disabilities, she is on the honor roll this year.

Antonio Said:

Could you please help me with the interpretation of a 2*2*5 MANOVA with repeated measures?

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If I am understanding you correctly, your independent variable is METHOD, yes? If your overall MANOVA was significant and you showed a main effect for METHOD, then it is reasonable to conclude that METHOD did, indeed, effect your outcome.

Again, if I am interpreting what you're writing here - your DVs were time and subskills. Your results indicate that METHOD had a significant impact on both TIME and SUBSKILLS.

In other words, if you predicted that Method A and Method B differed in their respective impact on time and subskills, you were right on target (of course - you will also need to examine the means to determine if the difference was in the predicted direction). If your "intervention" was the METHOD, then your intervention DID have an effect.

Interaction effects with MANOVAs are tricky, to say the least. Interpretation of them can at times be so obscure as to be virtually uninterpretable (e.g., method by time by subskills).

This is the time to pull in your statistician (hopefully, you have one on your committee) for some guidance. Sometimes it really does help to plot it out and visually inspect the means (might work for your two way interactions, but 3 way - not likely to be interpetable in a meaningful way).

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Congrats on making it this far, and good luck with your defense!

~M~

Lois Said:

What do you think about this?? easy10 points?

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far out man....beautiful...that is the word that describes this one...nothing but beautfiul