Multisensory+teaching+methods

Multisensory teaching methods as the name suggests is about using:
 * Multisensory teaching methods**
 * 1) **Visual**: That which you see.
 * 2) **Auditory**: That which you hear.
 * 3) **Auditory-Digital**: Your self-talk.
 * 4) **Kinesthetic**: The tactile ... where the child touches and handles objects.(Bradford)

To help children who have trouble learning to read and who might not be able to take in just visual or auditory learning experiences. The examples that John Bradford gave using the confusion a lot of students have with ‘b’ and ‘d’ and providing the examples that follow that can be used in any classroom for all children that may be having difficult in learning to read.

Examples: A teacher might give the child a tactile (touchy/feely) experience of the letter ‘b’ by getting the child to draw the letter really large on the carpet. This will involve the child using their arms, their sense of balance, and their whole body. They will remember the day their teacher had them 'writing' on the carpet with their hand making this great big shape, and can use that memory the next time they come to write the letter. Writing the letter ‘b’ in cursive handwriting on paper and with a big movement in the air puts a quite different slant on this letter. The letter starts on the line and rises to begin the down-stroke: there is nowhere else to put the circular bit but ahead of the down stroke. Yet another way to give a strong tactile memory of ‘b’ is to make the letter out of plasticine, play-dough or clay. A commonly used ‘trick’ to remember the direction of ‘b’ and ‘d’ is to show the child the word ‘bed’ on a card. This word begins with ‘b’ and ends with ‘d’, so that if you draw a bed over the letters, the upright part of ‘b’ will become the head of the bed, and the upright part of the ‘d’ will become the foot. You can draw a child lying on the bed to complete the picture. This gives a strong visual memory for the child to use each time the letter has to be written. You can also show the child how to hold up their index finger on each hand, with the thumb and second finger touching, making the word ‘bed’, but without the ‘e’. If they learn to do this, they can make this shape discretely with their fingers each time they need a reminder in class.(Bradford) All these examples involve all the sensors as the student creates sensory memories that they can think back on when they need to.
 * Use plasticine, play-dough or clay**

=Bibliography= Bradford, J. (n.d.). //Using multisensory teaching methods//. Retrieved July 28, 2001, from Dyslexia Online Magazine: http://www.dyslexia-parent.com/mag30.html

By Stefany Lamb