The research was contacted in primary schools in Cyprus in 2004. The purpose of the research was to:

1. To examine whether the reading skills of mentally retarded children match with the skills of non retarded children of the same age or of younger age.
2. To decide which learning approach is better for the above group i.e. visual, auditory, combination of these(word, sentence, picture, sounds).

It was found that their reading skills do not meet with children of their age or even children with younger age.

More details of the reseach will be found and downloaded from this site soon.

For the purpose of the project the special software LEXICON was use.

Research done by Eliada Pampoulou, speech therapist, Technological Education Institute, PATRA, Greece, May 2004.