The study found that college students with learning disabilities given a remedial summer reading program using the Orton-Gillingham multisensory alphabetic phonetic approach achieved statistically significant gains when compared to groups receiving a nonphonetic intervention or receiving no intervention. (Author/DB)

Students with learning disabilities can produce quality content area reports while sidestepping their written language difficulties by using multimedia, in which a computer integrates visual, graphic, audio, and textual information. Multimedia is motivational, provides a multisensory learning environment, gives students the ability to break…

Recent developments in multimedia and hypermedia have simplified the creation of high-quality presentations so that they are becoming a viable instructional option for both teachers and students. One potential use of integrated media technology is in student-created programs. To demonstrate this point, novice student programmers, who used simple…