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Download full textParmenter, Trevor R.; And Others – 1978
The paper reports on an Australian study comparing two methods of teaching a word recognition reading task to eight mildly retarded adolescents. One method involved incidental learning, while the other involved a more structured paired-associate approach. It was found that all eight Ss learned a short list of tool names equally well under either…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Foreign Countries, Incidental Learning, Mental Retardation
