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Confessional Scholarship?, Nick Van Til
Who Can Be Taught?, Elaine Chaika
A Multi-Sensory Approach To Teaching Spelling To Learning Disabled Children, Judith M. Meuleman
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 …