ABSTRACT
This chapter examines testing methods for children with physical or emotional defects. There are many backward readers who, for one reason or another, have just not mastered the difficulties of reading. They have no physical defects which should impede their progress in reading and the degree of emotional disturbance does not appear to be sufficient to cause them any insuperable difficulties. Many teachers of nine-, ten- and eleven-year-old backward readers have difficulty in finding a method which will help these children to forget their failure and restart the process of learning to read with ease and fluency. The teacher requires a method which rekindles the child’s desire to read and enables that child to retrieve the situation by learning what he may have missed. It is not a clinical situation where one teacher is able to deal with one child.
