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A study examined the reading profiles of adult poor readers at a community college and investigated the effectiveness of auditory perception training in the reading ability of these adults. Subjects, 30 students from varied ethnic backgrounds attending the Community College of Rhode Island who were registered for a reading and study skills course, were placed into two equal sized groups based on the confines of the students ' schedules and randomly assigned to one of two instructional conditions: a control group using a traditional metacognitive approach and an experimental group using a phonological skills approach based on the "Auditory Discrimination in Depth Program. " Pre- and posttest results from a variety of measures were compared. The final subject group used for analysis consisted of 21 students. Results indicated that (1) subjects continued to be plagued by deficiencies in phonologica