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Peer reviewedAult, Melinda Jones; And Others – American Journal of Mental Retardation, 1988
Three moderately mentally retarded students, aged 8-11, were taught to read words commonly found on community signs. Error percentages were similar for both progressive time-delay procedures and constant time-delay procedures, but the constant time-delay procedure was slightly more efficient in direct instructional time and number of sessions to…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Moderate Mental Retardation
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
