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Sac Volunteers Visit Palsy Victims, Jan Messier

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

"At first I didn't know how to react to them. I soon found out they were so accepting of everybody," said Dale Taper, a UMO sophomore nursing student, commenting on her first reaction to the eight victims [sic] of cerebral palsy (CP) she ahs been working with for the past two years.

A Multi-Sensory Approach To Teaching Spelling To Learning Disabled Children, Judith M. Meuleman

Master's Theses

Problem

Learning disabled children are receiving increasing attention, for despite an intelligence quotient within the normal range, they are not achieving in school as well as their peers. The reasons offered for this phenomenon seem to relate to perceptual problems. Specific learning disabilities occur in reading, arithmetic, spelling, handwriting and other motor coordination areas. This study investigates the effect of a multi-sensory method of teaching spelling to learning disabled children using sandpaper letters to utilize the tactile and kinesthetic sensory modalities.

Method

Unfamiliar spelling words were taught to 40 learning disabled children, 38 boys and 2 girls. The children were …