For hundreds of years verbal messages such as lectures and printed lessons have been the primary means of explaining ideas to learners. Although verbal learning offers a powerful tool, this book explores ways of going beyond the purely verbal. Recent advances in graphics technology and information technology have prompted new efforts to understand…

This report focuses on the visual component of verbo-visual literacy, a communications concept involving the production, transmission, and perception of verbal and visual images. Five current problem areas in verbal-visual research are introduced and discussed: (1) communication (communication models, media consumption, new media, the information…

Intended for the regular class teacher, the booklet contains 72 sample lesson activities for use with mainstreamed learning disabled students. Activities are organized around the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and cover the following areas: auditory reception, visual reception, auditory association, visual association, verbal…