Funding Reference EDU2017-84193-R Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain Víctor M. Acosta Rodríguez (PI), Gustavo M. Ramírez Santana, Sergio Hernández Expósito, and Ángeles Axpe Caballero. The project has two objectives. First, to identify and assess a group of students in the final year of preschool who face significant challenges in learning to read and who have recently been diagnosed with Language Development Disorder. Second, to design, develop, and evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention program to improve reading comprehension. The project is based on the premise that a child progresses in learning to read when, following the automatization of decoding processes, oral comprehension becomes a primary focus for reading comprehension. The program's content is based on an adaptation of the La Cuerda Model (Scarborough, 2010). Specifically, the work on learning and automating decoding skills is combined with the stimulation of oral language (lexical depth, figurative language, morphosyntax, narrative skills), executive functions, inferences, and working memory.
