This study was conducted to find what influence a cognitive process training, a reading enhancement program based on a PASS theory, has on reading skill in children with learning disabilities. The study questions were determined what influence cognitive process training based on PREP has on significant word reading skill, insignificant word reading skill, and sentence understanding skill in children with learning disabilities. The subjects of the study were 3 children with learning disabilities, who participated in the test for 12 weeks. Data were collected by multiple baseline design across subjects and discussions based on visual analysis and observation through graphs resulted in conclusions as follows: Cognitive process training based on PREP, was found to be effective in enhancing significant word reading skill, enhancing insignificant word reading skill, and enhancing sentence understanding in children with learning disabilities. Following suggestions are proposed for follow-up studies on the effect of cognitive process training based on PREP on reading skill in children with learning difficulty. First, it is expected that further studies related to basic vocabulary difficulty level analysis are needed to make PREP a practical reading treatment program by types of reading characteristics and levels of children with disabilities. Second, it suggests the need of lots of studies which identify the correlations between reading skill enhancement programs and reading skill effect by visual type of Korean letter.* Daegu National university of Education
Key words : Cognitive process training, PREP(Reading enhancement program based on a PASS theory), Reading skill, Children with learning disabilities