Do you support a child or adult with sensory perceptual issues or cognitive impairment? For people with challenging sensory and cognitive conditions, everyday life can become so unpredictable and chaotic that over time, lack of engagement can often lead to a state of learned helplessness. In this insightful text, Paul Pagliano shows how "learned…

Alternative teaching approaches, including the use of multisensory teaching, were studied with 40 first-grade children, 20 identified as "at risk" for learning problems and 20 control Ss. Results showed that the experimental group had significantly more gains in all areas tested than the control group. (PHR)

Reports on the successful use of a modified Fernald technique with second graders using colored chalk on the blackboard. (MKM)

Presents a program for preschool and primary children with special learning difficulties and dyslexia, the emphasis being on the manipulation of concrete multisensory stimuli and didactic materials as the avenue to learning. Describes both the hard- and soft-ware used in the program. (VJ)

Six learning-disabled second-grade resource room students with auditory deficits had poor listening skills that inhibited their attention to directions and their accurate completion of assignments. Using a curriculum which incorporated visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities, the practicum project encouraged and motivated the children and…