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Download full textEllingsen, Ryleigh; Clinton, Elias – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
This manuscript reviews the empirical literature of the TouchMath© instructional program. The TouchMath© program is a commercial mathematics series that uses a dot notation system to provide multisensory instruction of computation skills. Using the program, students are taught to solve computational tasks in a multisensory manner that does not…
Descriptors: Disabilities, At Risk Students, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
Partridge, Susan – 1983
To increase teachers' sensitivity to their students' learning styles, this paper points out some behavioral characteristics displayed by many right-hemispheric children. Additionally, the distinction between children who are either "part perceivers" or "whole perceivers" is explained. Functions of brain parts as well as several remedial,…
Descriptors: Behavior, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education
Stanback, Margaret – 1980
The author first reviews traditional approaches to classroom spelling instruction, then presents research on remedial spelling instruction for learning disabled children. Section I considers factors which make spelling harder than reading, the history of traditional spelling instruction from Colonial times to the 1950s, the generalization…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, History, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedFulk, Barbara Mushinski; Stormont-Spurgin, Mellissa – Journal of Special Education, 1995
This review of 38 studies on spelling interventions designed for students with learning disabilities who are poor spellers found that nearly all "systematic" techniques can be effectively employed. Study interventions consisted of four types: instructional procedures (such as imitation modeling and analogy training), computer-assisted instruction,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
Harris, Albert J. – 1980
New treatments of reading disabilities have recently been developed. New medical therapies for reading disabilities link poor functions of the mechanism that controls balance and movement to reading disability and focus medical attention on diet as a cause of hyperactive behavior and learning disorders. These medical therapies are still…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Dyslexia, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Lazear, David G. – 1992
Over the past 50 years, brain researchers have stated that human beings probably use less than 1 percent of the brain's potential, and research findings about human intelligence have transformed almost all previous definitions of intelligence. This booklet addresses the following key findings in intelligence research: intelligence is not fixed or…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions
