This study investigated the results of employing shared story reading during literacy instruction for participants with severe and multiple disabilities. This intervention was conducted in an effort to improve independent responses made by participants with severe and multiple disabilities within a small group on a task analysis during shared…

This study compared discovery and expository methods of teaching lip-reading skills to 26 college students with normal hearing. No significant differences were found in method effectiveness. Training in consonant-vowel syllables was somewhat maintained four weeks later but did not generalize to word identification skills. (Author/DB)