Reading Comprehension

Project Connect-IT:  Connecting Text by Inference and Technology

A large direct contributor to comprehension problems in middle school students with or at risk for reading disabilities is pervasive difficulty in making inferences necessary for understanding what is read. Because literacy attainments in middle school are highly predictive of postsecondary success, middle school provides a later developmental window within which to intervene for struggling adolescent readers. Consequently, a technology-based inference-making intervention, Connect-IT-Computer, and an interventionist-led version, Connect-IT-Teacher, were developed for middle school students with or at risk for reading disabilities in an IES Development and Innovation project (Barnes, PI).

More Projects

• Connect – IT: Development and Innovation Project
  • Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (2016-2021)
  • Grant R324A170150
  • Role: PI
• Connect – IT: Efficacy Project 
  • Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (2020-2024)
  • Grant R324A200101
  • Role: PI
• Attention in Reading and Reading Difficulties
  • Texas Center for Learning Disabilities (NIH: JM Fletcher PI)
  • Project 2: Attention in Reading and Reading Difficulties (P. Cirino PI)
  • Role: Co-PI
• Understanding Word-Reading & Calculations Comorbid Learning Disabilities
  • NIH Grant R01HD097772: D. Fuchs & L. Fuchs
  • Role: Co-I
• Project I-READ: Improving Reading Efficiency and Decoding