Designed for primary teachers, this guide is divided into four parts. Part one provides background information related to understanding specific language disability, the need for early identification, phonics, the use of manuscript instead of cursive, and group therapy. Part two discusses the preparations that are to be made by the teacher,…

Familiarity with dance enhances perceptivity in the other arts by virtue of the kinesthetic sensitization it affords. (JH)

Lists several physical exercises and activities for deaf children to help them in speech development. (GB)

This article discusses incorporation of academic curriculum elements into movement units, synchronous movement as a teaching tool, the movement-cognition connection, and identification and use of rhythm and movement elements in the classroom. (IAH)

When educators consciously integrate the arts and education, the benefits are magnified. Kinesthetic learning has wide-ranging applications, such as interpreting a concept through physical means to increase comprehension, exploring literature themes and feelings through creative movement, exploring the universality and particularity of human…

Describes tracing and kinesthetic techniques (often used with severely disabled readers) which may help extremely poor spellers in first-year writing classes. (SR)

The teaching of human anatomy has had to respond to significant changes in medical curricula, and it behooves anatomists to devise alternative strategies to effectively facilitate learning of the discipline by medical students in an integrated, applied, relevant, and contextual framework. In many medical schools, the lack of cadaver dissection as…

The new science of Proxemic Behavior (introduced by Edward T. Hall) should be included in the basic triple structure of human communicative behavior: language-paralanguage-kinesthesia. The applications of such a science are many e.g., analysis and study of the narrative character in novels. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

This is a collection of significant papers by leading authorities, compiled by the American Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation's Kinesiology Committee of the Physical Education Division. The following papers are included in this collection: "Supporting Biomechanics Subject Matter in the Undergraduate Curriculum";…

Four papers detailing the Fuller Reading System and its successful use with low-IQ subjects and one paper discussing the System and the results of using it are presented in this collection. The subjects were 23 residents of Maryland's principal institution for the retarded. They ranged in age from eleven to 51 years and in Stanford-Binet IQ from…

A grab bag of ideas for working with learning-disabled children in the areas of reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic. (RB)

Describes Lincer's eight-part, innovative program for string instrument instruction used at the Julliard School of Music. The program includes breathing and relaxation studies, body-movement and muscle-action studies, feeling and self-awareness studies, and concentration and visualization studies. (AM)