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Increasing Visual Attention: Using Resistive Activities.
Jani, Subhash N. – Academic Therapy, 1983
Resistance applied to activities of rocking, creeping, and walking as a means to increase visual attention of students who are easily distracted is described. The resistance activities are said to result in improvement of gross motor coordination, oculomotor control, memory processes, and untimately, greater efficiency in academic learning. (CL)
Descriptors: Attention, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Learning, Physical Activities
A Visual Spelling Approach: It Works!
Glazzard, Peggy – Academic Therapy, 1982
The author describes a technique, a visual spelling approach, which has been used successfully with learning disabled students who demonstrate poor auditory discrimination but who have good visual skills. (SW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Handicaps, Spelling Instruction
Sentence Development: A Nonverbal Approach.
Sinatra, Richard – Academic Therapy, 1983
A visual/spatial nonverbal approach to sentence development for the reading and learning disabled uses pictures, model sentence configurations, and function words. Students are encouraged to contribute their own written language that conforms to the model. Visual and sentence clues provide input to the right brain, encouraging language learning.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties
Eye Exercises and Reading Efficiency
Heath, Earl J.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1976
Evaluated with a total of 60 primary-grade children was the effectiveness in improving ocular motor control of three training programs: the Bender proprioceptive facilitative feedback exercises, the Marsden ball program, and perceptual exercises. (DB)
Descriptors: Eye Movements, General Education, Reading Skills, Research Projects
Training Visual Attention
Mulholland, Thomas B. – Academic Therapy, 1974
The effects of brain waves and alpha rhythms on attentiveness to visual stimuli are discussed, and preliminary research findings and research needs are considered in connection with measuring and training for attention. (LH)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Electroencephalography, Exceptional Child Research, Handicapped Children
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