Studies have documented that the explicit teaching of discrimination of syllables
promotes the emergence of reading of taught syllables, syllables with recombination of
the letters of the taught syllables and the reading of words formed by taught and
recombined syllables. Research on recombinative reading in English has demonstrated
the emergence of reading of new words formed by the recombination of onset e rime.
The present study investigated if the teaching of reading monosyllabic words formed by
recombination among onset and rime promote reading of new English words in Braille
code and Roman alphabet in raised letters to blind people. Three blind adults
participated in the study that was divided in three stages. In Stage I, the participants
were exposed to a pretest, three sequences of gradual teaching units of conditional
discrimination interspersed with textual reading tests of training and generalization
words. In Stage Ic it was applied a test of conditional discrimination among words
printed in braille and words in Roman alphabet printed in raised letters. In Stages II and
III, tests of textual reading of simple generalization words (Stage II) and compound
words (Stage III) and the naming of objects were applied. After that, the relations AB
(spoken words – objects), AC, AD (spoken words – printed words), BC, BD (objects –
printed words) e CB, DB (printed words – objects) were tested. These relations have
documented reading comprehension. After the equivalence tests, it was also verified the
emergency of performance in copy and dictation. The words were printed in braille in
Stages Ia, IIa e IIIa. The words in Roman alphabet were printed in raised letters in
Stages Ib, IIb, and IIIb. All participants reached immediately the criterion in all or in
most stages of teaching and test. All participants have presented both textual reading
and reading comprehension of simple generalization words and compound words,
printed in braille and Roman alphabet in raised letters. The results showed the
emergence of recombinative reading after the teaching of conditional discrimination of
monossilabic words formed by onset and rime.
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