The effect of audio texts on reading comprehension skills of individuals with mild mental disability

Abstract

Reading is a complex skill that requires understanding and thinking. While some of the individuals who need special education have reading skills, they may experience difficulties in comprehension and interpretation skills. The purpose of this research; The aim of this study is to investigate whether audio texts affect the reading comprehension skills of high school students with mild intellectual disability. It was designed according to the action research pattern, one of the qualitative research models. "Criteria Sampling" method, one of the purposive sampling methods, was used to determine the study group of the research. In this study, the reading comprehension inventory was used as a data collection tool. Content analysis technique was used in the analysis of the data. According to the findings of the study, it was determined that the texts given aloud contributed to the students' reading comprehension levels.