This was a project that was used by nine students who were labeled moderately intellectually disabled.  They ranged in word recognition skills from complete non-reader to beginning second grade.  Only one reading program existed for this population.  The program was the Edmark Reading Program.  The program used overlearning to teach Dolch Sight Words.  This project was to develop the teacher's own reading program based on the lives of the students.  By purchasing a computer program titled "Make-A-Book",  The teacher was able to generate books based on the lives and interests of the students to encourage them to enjoy the written word.  If the books interested the students in the class, they retained more sight words than they would if taught in a traditional manner.  Furthermore,  the teacher wanted to purchase a computer program titled "Make-A-Flash" which allowed the teacher to create sight word flash cards based on the students' personalized stories. 

          This project was to expose the students to words and to books.  Research indicated that moderately intellectually disabled students exposed to the written word improved their reading skills.  A data collection system was used to measure reading improvement.