Learning music can help children with reading readiness and beginning reading skills. (MKM)

This study showed that measurable deficits in visual perception were not interfering with normal reading achievement among these second graders, yet there was no sign of compensatory development of auditory skills. (HOD)

Points out that oral reading involves visual, auditory, and kinesthetic perception and that it is impossible to divide reading methods into auditory and visual categories. Discusses the need to discover whether a child's perceptual abilities are directly related to his learning propensities and lists several other areas of needed research.…

Suggests specific ways in which the classroom teacher can teach to a child's perceptual and instructional weakness through his strengths. Notes that the goal is to provide instruction in the subject area, not just in perceptual skills. Bibliography. (RW)