The study compared computer assisted instruction with a speech synthesizer and teacher instruction to teach grocery sight words to three moderately retarded adults in an alternating treatments design. Two of the subjects learned equally well with either method while one learned only in the teacher-taught situation. (Author/DB)

Courseware for teaching survival sight vocabulary and reading skills by computer to nonreading adults was developed using principles of adult learning. Non-English speaking immigrants in Western Australia used the modules cooperatively and were interviewed to determine their reactions to the approach. (SK)