Research on visual perception training and language training suggests that selective measures of the two abilities are correlated with certain measures of reading and intelligence as well as visual perception and psycholinguistic abilities. This research investigated the effects of short term training programs in visual perception and language as they affected the visual perception, language, reading, and intellectual growth of young educable retarded children. The results indicated that young educable retardates did increase their visual perceptual abilities as a result of training in visual perception. The results of visual perception training had no significant effect upon growth in reading, language or intelligence. Language training was found to have no significant effect upon the variables studied.
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