Multi-sensory education: and its applications in special needs, beginners, and young learners

Often in classes we can over rely on sight and sound. Of course, these are the principal ways most of us interactive with the world but at the same time we shouldn't underestimate the power of learning as an experience. In recent years a new pedagogical approach, 'The multi-sensory approach' has been gaining traction, it comes from teachers who work with beginners, young learners, and special needs students who are often frustrated with the lack of options to help their students which work in today's contexts.

The idea is that through hands on, authentic, and experience as learning these students can make much bigger advancements than before. This approach and my training in this area has helped me immensely. Over 1 year ago, I embarked on a journey to help special needs students and to better understand how to teach really low level young learners. In the end my practice led-research in both areas took me down the same route. Over the next few weeks I will be sharing what has worked for me and explaining more about this radical new approach.

For now let me leave you with a few resources I have come across that can tell you more and help you develop.

Dyslexia and Foreign Language teaching - Lancaster University
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/dyslexia

Multi-sensory Instruction
https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/instructional-strategies/multisensory-instruction-what-you-need-to-know

Multi-sensory reading activities
https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/instructional-strategies/8-multisensory-techniques-for-teaching-reading

Multi sensory approaches in the Elementary school: summary of reference papers
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED432388.pdf