Reading disabled subjects were very quickly taught letter-sound associations (later used in reading) by an object-imaging-projection method utilizing 26 actual objects found around the home (flower, key, pan, etc.), each object having a name whose beginning sound is a letter sound, and having a form very similar to the letter form. This method might also be quite effective in reteaching reading to people who have suddenly lost the ability to read due to brain damage. It appears that with this method, our language becomes an easily learned, multiprocessed object language, not requiring letter distortion for the learning process.
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