Oral Reading Skills and Comprehension Test-ii (sobat®-ii): Assessment of reading fluency and comprehension of Turkish students with specific learning disabilities

participation of school administrators, teachers and 
students in such studies may create positive results. 
Acknowledgements 
The research reported on here was supported by the 
TUBITAK, 
through 
the 
project 
titled 
“Development and Evaluation of Usability of a 
Standard Oral Reading Test for Assessment of 
Reading and Comprehension Development of 
Children with Specific Learning Disabilities 
between ages 7–14” (project number 113K310). 
The opinions expressed are those of the authors and 
do not represent the views of TUBITAK. 
We would like to extend our appreciation to 
the following members of the project for their 
contributions: Professor Dr Pınar Girmen, Assistant 
Professor Hilmi Demiral, Assistant Professor Ümit 
Çelen, Research Assistant Ayşe Tunç Paftalı, 
Research Assistant Özge Sultan Balıkçı, Research 
Assistant Tüncay Tutuk, Teacher Ferhan Kırbaş, 
Teacher Şeyda Kapdan, and Burak Eren Eraslan. 
Authors’ Contributions 
All authors contributed to the completion of the 
manuscript. 
MAM 
wrote 
the 
manuscript, 
completed the literature review, and did the data 
collection and analysis. HGE contributed to the 
method section and data analysis. OC contributed 
to the data collection and discussion. All authors 
reviewed the final manuscript. 
Notes 
i. 
Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 
Licence. 
ii. 
DATES: Received: 10 July 2019; Revised: 3 January 
2020; Accepted: 6 February 2020; Published: 28 February 
2021. 
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