Teaching Functional Reading Sills to Speech Impaired Adults with Special Needs

Two special needs adults with speech disorders were taught to read functional vocabulary and short phrases/sentences with strategies involving listening, demonstration of community contexts, word meaning drills, beginning sound identification and shaping, prompting, correct pronunciation, and teache...

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Published inB. C. Journal of Special Education Vol. 8; no. 2; p. 149
Main Authors Delen, Anneke M, McLaughlin, T. F
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 1984
Subjects
Adults
Basic Skills
Communication Disorders
Functional Reading
Reading Instruction
Word Recognition
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Summary:Two special needs adults with speech disorders were taught to read functional vocabulary and short phrases/sentences with strategies involving listening, demonstration of community contexts, word meaning drills, beginning sound identification and shaping, prompting, correct pronunciation, and teacher encouragement. Large increases in correct word identification and sentence reading were noted. (CL)