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Peer reviewedGold, Patricia Cohen; Horn, Pamela L. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Trained volunteers tutored youth and adults who were reading below fifth grade level. Pre- and posttest measures of reading, verbal language, listening comprehension, and locus of control were taken. Experimental subjects, but not controls, made significant gains in general reading and discrete reading subskills. Trained volunteers can ameliorate…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Functional Literacy, Pretests Posttests
Peer reviewedPershey, Monica Gordon; Gilbert, Thomas W. – Mental Retardation, 2002
This case study of an adult with developmental disabilities and no educational history reports on the successful literacy tutoring method used, which entails echo reading of brief passages and moving from holistic recognition of print to analysis of decoding and spelling. This approach contrasts with methods that first use small units of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Case Studies, Decoding (Reading)
