This essay concerns the learning area, which deals with textual behavior in reading and writing that is taught by means of a choice procedure according to a model (matching to sample) and was developed with five children with brain paralysis, who were placed in a rehabilitation center and were students in a standard education public school; four of these children had school failure history. Data show that choice procedures according to a model designed to teach reading and writing, led individuals with brain paralysis to read and understand texts presented by their teacher, though imperfectly. Through reports by parents and teachers it has been also known that subjects changed their behavior in classroom and home; their relationship to others in those settings has been made easier.
conditional discrimination; brain paralysis; school failure; teaching to read and write
