title: Teaching elementary spelling to a retarded resident by another resident.
abstract: A case report of a retarded person teaching another retarded person in a residential setting is presented. The person teaching was trained to use graduated physical and verbal prompts to teach the printing and spelling of the alphabet and certain words to the student. Over an 8-wk. period, the student thoroughly mastered the alphabet and learned to spell and read 50 words.
mesh_terms: D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011932:Reading; D014706:Verbal Learning; D014956:Writing