Evaluating the Research on the Instruction of Literacy with Language (RILL) intervention programme for children with reading difficulties, aged 8 - 10 years old, compared with age-matched, wait-list control children, learning through the medium of Welsh, on reading and language measures
Children with reading difficulties (e.g., developmental dyslexia)
For the intervention arm, children will receive the RILL intervention programme twice a week for 15 weeks. Each lesson is administered by a trained teaching assistant and lasts for up to 45 minutes per lesson. The intervention will be administered outside standard literacy instruction. The waitlist control arm will receive standard instruction during the period that the intervention arm receives RILL. After the children in the intervention arm receive RILL, children in the wait-list control group will then receive RILL (under the same conditions).
1. Children aged 8 - 10 years old 2. Undertaking Welsh-language instruction at school 3. Normal or corrected-to-normal vision and hearing 4. Identified as having literacy difficulties via a reading screener
Children not in a mainstream school setting