| Abstract | [Introduction]
A recent study in Reading Research Quarterly (Stedman and Kaestle 1987) concluded that 20 percent of the adult population, or some 35 million people in our country, have difficulties with simple reading tasks like following directions on a medicine bottle, reading product labels, traffic signs, street names, bus schedules, report cards of their children. I am not suprised to find that 20 percent of our adult population are reading disabled. In our schools today, it is not uncommon to find that some 20 percent of the children in the early grades are labeled learning disabled and the majority of them receive that label because of problems with reading acquisition. |
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