This study was designed to examine the effects of flashcard-used, word-reading teaching on
mentally retarded children’s word recognition ability. We measured the degree of word recogn
ition of the normal children(NC) and mentally retarded children(MR) in the same mental age,
8. The 10 subjects for each groups selected. They all were in the same mental age, 8.
The following studys were conducted for these purpose.
1. Tasks assessing word-reading ability was examined through 10 MR.
2. Automatization speed and syllables-reading of ‘word list reading-task’ was examined thr
ough 10 MR and NC.
The obtained data were analyzed through frequencies and t-test. The data processing was m
ade using spss/windows 11.0 to insure precision.
The results of these analysis are as follow.
1. According to tasks assessing word-reading, mentally retarded children’s word recognitio
n ability was improved from 65.9% to 99.6% in the levelⅠ, from 30.7% to 98% in the
levelⅡ, from 18.5% to 95% in the leve Ⅲ,
2. MR spent more time conducting ‘word list reading-task’ and made more errors in syllab
les-reading than NC. But, no significant difference was found between MR and NC in
the test of automatization speed and syllables-reading of ‘word list reading-task’.