Learning Disability Strategies – Strategies that Help Learning Disabilities

Multisensory Teaching – Students with learning disabilities often respond well to multisensory teaching methods. Multisensory methods are successful for students with a learning disability because they actively involve multiple senses. Multisensory teaching theory is built on research that suggests students learn, understand, and remember material that is presented to them in a variety of ways using multiple senses. Multisensory techniques may involve vision, hearing, touching, tasting, movement, and even smell using a variety of multisensory teaching materials. In learning the letter ‘A’ for example, a student may listen to a teacher or peer say the name of the letter. He may be taught to say the name of the letter, make a hand symbol representing the shape of the letter, create the letter in clay using a visual model, trace the letter in sand, and draw the letter with apple scented markers.
More Learning Disability Strategies That Can Help:

• Scope and Sequence Strategies
• Direct Instruction Strategies
• Multisensory Teaching Strategies