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Auditory Input: Effects on Performance and Behavior.
Hooker, Spencer A. – Academic Therapy, 1985
An informal study suggested that although auditory input affects and often interferes with learning, especially in learning disabled children, the students learn to cope with the interference. The importance of considering all learning modalities was stressed. (CL)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
The Interdisciplinary Modified Motor Evaluation.
Kaplan, Rocky M. – Academic Therapy, 1978
The article describes an interdisciplinary modified motor evaluation which allows the professional to classify a child according to a perceptual motor development level. (SBH)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities
Cognitive Styles of Thinking and Learning. Part One.
Kane, Martin – Academic Therapy, 1984
Research on hemispheric and modality preference and implications for children with specific learning disabilities is reviewed. A chart lists information concerning performance of left and right hemisphere for modes of information processing. General and specific skill enhancement strategies for reading and general development are suggested. (CL)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Style, Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities
Making IEPs Work in the Regular Classroom.
Davis, Bette Jo; Quick, Linda – Academic Therapy, 1981
A five-step method is advanced for matching teaching strategies with learning styles in implementing individualized educational programs with learning disabled students. Steps involve evaluating current and needed skills and assessing how the child has learned what he/she already knows. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Education Programs, Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities
Intermodal Abilities as Predictors of Academic Achievement
Early, George H.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1976
Investigated with 69 elementary grade children was the relationship between a cross-modal perceptual-motor task and academic achievement. (DB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Are Poor Reading Skills a Symptom or Disease?
Shankman, Albert L. – Academic Therapy, 1974
An optometrist hypothesizes that poor reading skills stem from a child's inability to discern relationships among objects, people, concepts or instructional materials and suggests that physical problem-solving tasks that utilize several sense modalities simultaneously provide effective remedial treatment. (LH)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities, Optometrists
A Developmental Model for Learning Disorders
Kelly, George R. – Academic Therapy, 1978
Presented and discussed is a model of sensory and intersensory components related to information processing and expressive activity in children with learning problems. (CL)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language, Information Processing
Teaching Reading to the Child with Perceptual Deficits
Shore, Bernard; Riegel, Paula – Academic Therapy, 1978
The article reviews techniques which incorporate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities in developing reading skills of perceptually handicapped students. (CL)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities, Perceptual Development
He Really Isn't Lazy
Banas, Norma; Wills, I. H. – Academic Therapy, 1977
Students repeatedly urged to try harder often suffer from deficits in learning mode that must be identified and remediated specifically before academic performance will improve. (JG)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Problems
Modality Preference and Teaching Method: A Review of the Research.
Kampwirth, Thomas J.; Bates, Marion – Academic Therapy, 1980
The article reviews 22 studies concerned with learning disabled children under 10 years old in which there was a clear attempt to compare auditory and visual modality preferenes to visual and/or auditory methods of teaching words or other written verbal symbols. (PHR)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities