The purpose of this study was to find out the effects of direct instruction on phonological
awareness and word recognition for 3 students with nonverbal cerebral palsy in a special
school by using multiple baseline design.
All participants showed improvement on phonological awareness and word recognition. In
other words, this result indicated that direct instruction have positive effect on the improvement
of phonological awareness and word recognition. Besides, it is regarded as one of the valuable researches because it discovered the reading possibility of the students with nonverbal cerebral palsy.
Also, it was discussed that we should consider how to develop and strengthen basic academic skills which have been neglected in literacy education for students with nonverbal cerebral palsy.
This study suggested that IEP should include the students’ characteristics in order to give
many chances to experience the AAC systems or computer software for literacy education.
Furthermore, it was discussed that many kinds of software for improvement of literacy should
be developed.