Recent studies have documented that the explicit teaching of discrimination of syllables promotes the emergence of reading of syllables of teaching and syllables with recombination of the letters of the syllables of teaching. It also readily promotes the reading of words formed by the syllables of teaching and recombined. Studies have shown the reading of new words with recombination of onset and rime as facilitator factor when the English language is taught as mother tongue. The learning of English by blind people have been documented as a factor of inclusion. This study investigated whether the teaching of discrimination of words with segmentation onset/rime facilitates the reading of new words in English, as foreign language, using Braille symbols and the Roman alphabet in raised letters. Three blind women, fluent Braille readers, participated. The study comprised three stages. Stage Ia (auditory/Braille), Stage Ib (Braille/Roman alphabet in raised letters) and Stage Ic (auditory/Roman alphabet in raised letters). In Stage I the participants were exposed to a pretest, teaching of conditional discrimination and textual reading test of training and generalization words. In Stage Ic it was applied a test of conditional discrimination. In Stages II and III were applied tests of textual reading of recombined simple (Stage II) and compound (Stage III) words and naming of objects. It was tested the relations between spoken words and objects (AB), spoken words and printed words (AC), objects and printed words (BC) and printed words and objects (CB) which documented the comprehension reading of the words in Braille and Roman alphabet in raised letters, and the emergence of copy and dictation. The three participants reached the criterion in all phases of all stages. The results showed that the teaching of discrimination of words with segmentation onset/rime facilitated the emergence of recombinative reading in English, as foreign language, with blind speakers of Portuguese, using Braille and Roman alphabet in raised letters, it also showed the emergence of reading with comprehension with the equivalence of stimuli procedure. These results indicate that new technologies for teaching, that enable greater inclusion of blind people in community, can be generated.
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