AN EXAMINATION OF THE STUDIES CONDUCTED ON THE FIELD OF READING SKILLS OF STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

Abstract

The aim of this research is to examine the studies conducted between 2014 and 2020 on the field of reading skills of students with learning disabilities in terms of various variables. For this purpose, a total of 20 studies, 10 master's and 10 doctoral theses, were analyzed by the researchers in the database of the National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education. The content analysis method was used to examine the studies conducted in the field of reading skills of students with learning disabilities. All of these studies were obtained by providing direct access to the database of the National Dissertation Center. The studies examined were analyzed in terms of variables such as the thesis advisor, the year of publication of the thesis, the thesis level, the department where the thesis was made, the institute and the university to which it was affiliated, the title of thesis advisor, the participant characteristics of the thesis, the number of participants in the thesis, the thesis data collection tools, the data analysis method of the thesis, the data analysis design of the thesis, number of domestic and foreign bibliography and number of keywords, and studies in the field of reading skills of students with learning disabilities were revealed.

Keywords: learning disability, reading skill, content analysis.