Word identification, multisensory, and comprehension instructional strategies are described for teaching students with reading difficulties. These include the analytic method, synthetic word families, syllabaries, Goodman's Reading Strategy Lessons, Fernald Technique, Cooper Method, Modality Blocking Procedure, Gillingham-Stillman Method,…

Reports on a research study which compared children's verbal and nonverbal responses to music stimuli. Also examines the relationship between verbal and visual responses. Concludes that educators should continue to search for efficient sequencing of associative pairings of oral/visual stimuli in order to make traditional music terminology more…

Presents multisensory methods for adapting classroom lectures for mainstreamed students. (FL)

Children are inspired to write creatively if they are free to sensorially absorb and naturally react to the world around them. (JH)

A grab bag of ideas for working with learning-disabled children in the areas of reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic. (RB)

Discusses the multi-modal approach to basic-level reading instruction and methods by which the teaching of reading skills can take place in a multi-modal context. Identifies the philosophical view of adult reading-skill acquisition which serves as the foundation of the program. (JOW)

Twenty-one hearing-impaired children (6- to 14-years-old) who had received unisensory instruction for at least three years were administered a series of syllable reception tests. Subjects showed significantly more improvement when audition was added to visual reception than has been shown in previous studies of children educated in "multisensory"…

Four contributors offer tips on (1) creating an elementary school newspaper, (2) reading aloud to children, (3) using the newspaper in the classroom, and (4) using a multisensory approach to teach reading disabled students. (FL)

Summarizes a research study that explored the effectiveness of the Prime-O-Tec method, a multisensory technique for teaching sight vocabulary and comprehension, with disabled adult readers. Concludes that the listening, saying, seeing, and touching technique is effective with such a population. (FL)

Experiment I showed that hearing subjects outperformed deaf subjects on a lipreading task, possibly because they could supplement lip-read stimuli with stored auditory information. Experiment II demonstrated that sighted subjects did not use stored visual information to supplement auditory input, for they performed no differently from congenitally…

Science activities for the visually impaired (SAVI) introduces blind and visually impaired children (9 to 12 years old) to physical and life sciences in a multisensory way. Evolution of SAVI activities involves exploration, local trials, and national trials. SAVI project materials can help integrate handicapped children into the mainstream through…

Describes the Lab School of Washington, a private school for students with moderate to severe learning disabilities which focuses on students' strengths and teaches students using a blend of arts, multisensory learning, individualized attention, and nontraditional school experiences. About 90 percent of students from this successful school go on…

Describes a multisensory method for teaching the order of operations. (YDS)