In an effort to respond to Vermont teachers' and tutors' need for learning disabilities instruction, the Stern Center for Language and Learning developed a model program to teach adults with learning disabilities. The program included 12 hours of instruction presented over Vermont interactive television to over 100 adult basic education (ABE) tutors throughout the state. Two adult students with learning disabilities were enrolled in remediation programs at the Stern Center at the same time so that their instruction could be demonstrated on videotape during the course. Follow-up visits were made to each of the 17 ABE sites in the state upon course completion to maximize opportunities for generalization of information presented. The course was designed to introduce tutors to the definition of learning disabilities and to the concept of a language learning continuum. It focused on how to identify and instruct those who presented specific problems with basic reading and spelling, decoding and encoding of the written word. Because adults with learning disabilities have good intelligence and poor visual memory, teaching strategies had to capitalize upon their good thinking rather than rote memorization. The course emphasized synthetic phonics instruction that was highly structured, sequenced, and rule based. Teaching techniques for developing a sight vocabulary to supplement synthetic phonics learning were also shared. (YLB)