The study attempts to achieve the following aims:-
1. Identifying the common characteristics of Primary Stage Saudi dyslexic pupils who have learning difficulties related to dyslexia.
2. Determining the extent to which those learning difficulties are spread among a sample of Saudi Primary Stage pupils via surveying five different Regions within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
3. Diagnosing the difficulties which dyslexic pupils encounter on studying primary curricula particularly Arabic, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies in Aseer Region.
4. Devising appropriate educational programs for the dyslexic pupils in which modern educational technologies (computer and interactive video) would be employed so as to remedy learning difficulties due to dyslexia, in addition to the supplementary guidance programs for teachers.
5. Applying the technology based programs onto the dyslexic pupils on one hand and on teachers the other hand to measure the effect of using educational technology upon dyslexic pupils. This will be achieved via employing achievement tests in Arabic, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies which will help determine the effectiveness of technology based programs, if there is any.
Learning difficulties which pupils encounter and may have a negative impact on their achievement, especially in their early educational years, are numerous.  This research aims at identifying the effect of using some modern educational technologies such as computer and interactive video to remedy one of the learning difficulties i.e., Dyslexia.
In order to diagnose dyslexic students, some appropriate already made tools will be used as well as new tools that will be standardized to fit into the Saudi context.  A comprehensive survey for a large sample of Saudi elementary stage pupils (9 to 12 years old) from five different regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, (about 3000 pupils) will be conducted to identify the dyslexic pupils in terms of: frequency, degree of dyslexia they suffer from, symptoms, causes and effects.
To remedy dyslexia, some educational programs will be designed with the aid of modern educational technologies to be used with dyslexic pupils who find difficulty in studying and learning concepts in Arabic, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies at the Southern Region of Aseer in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.   Some guidance programs for teachers and parents will also be devised and used alongside with those technologically based educational programs.  The effect of those programs on the pupils’ achievement of concepts, which were difficult for them to learn, will be measured using some criterion -referenced tests, prepared particularly for this purpose. Recommendations, suggestions and mechanisms for implementing the programs to fully make use of the modern educational technologies to remedy the learning difficulties will be determined accordingly.

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Investigating and testing the hypotheses of the study using the appropriate statistical technique, the results of the study can be summed in the following:
Regarding the first hypothesis, the results revealed that the ratio of dyslexia spread differs according to the region and the students' grades. The results showed that the big ratio of dyslexia spread was in Riyadh region (30.6%) and in the sixth grade (14.2%). Generally, the results of this hypothesis refer to the fact that dyslexia spread in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia copes with the international rate.
Regarding the second hypothesis, results revealed that dyslexics are characterized with incompetence in many of the behavioral characteristics and the basic reading skills compared with their ordinary peers.
The results of the third hypothesis showed that dyslexics suffer from clear incompetence in the auditory perception, word analysis, word meaning, sentence comprehension, paragraph and text understanding compared to their ordinary peers.
The results of the fourth hypothesis refer to the effectiveness of the study programs, especially the dyslexia remedial program, in curing reading difficulties of dyslexics (the study sample). The results of this hypothesis showed that there were significant differences favoring the post assessment as well as an effect volume ranging from 0.59 to 1.8, which clearly proves the accuracy, well planning and application of the program

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