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Gast, David L.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
Four moderately mentally retarded students, aged 8-13, were taught to read food words found in grocery stores, using constant time delay or system of least prompts procedures. Both strategies produced criterion-level performance in training and other settings, but the constant time delay procedure was more efficient. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cues, Efficiency, Elementary Education
Barudin, Stuart I.; Hourcade, Jack J. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1990
The relative effectiveness of 3 instructional procedures (sight word, fading, tactile-kinesthetic) in teaching 32 students (age 9-20) with moderate to severe mental retardation to read a series of monosyllabic words was investigated. No one experimental condition was superior to the others, and no skill acquisition differences were found in…
Descriptors: Cues, Instructional Effectiveness, Kinesthetic Methods, Moderate Mental Retardation
