Preparing Teachers for Multisensory Teaching Strategy to Improve the Learning Outcomes of Students with Reading Disabilities
Keywords:
Multisensory Teaching, Disabilities, environment, socially intelligentAbstract
Today the classroom climate does not make it easy for children with dyslexia, the reading disability. Teachers can see more and more students who are having difficulties in reading problems. The scores in reading are decreased and as a result, the whole academic performance declines. In a normal environment, these students function as socially intelligent individuals with no disabilities. But when it comes to reading, they feel they are no longer well intelligent persons and they think they are excluded from learning to read, write and spell the words. This happens more in a language class especially in learning to read a foreign language. With better understanding of the nature of reading only, effective ways of teaching for these students can be devised. So it is the prime duty of a teacher to understand the most suitable ways in which students with reading disability can acquire reading. This helps millions and millions of students with dyslexia whose lives are shattered by it, to develop their academic results. If each teacher uses better tools to help these students, then the normal students with poor reading habits also will succeed in reading. This paper give details how the students learn to read and how much it is important to offer teachers potentially new interventions for students with reading disability. It also focuses how multisensory teaching plays an important role in reading when incorporated into the inclusive curriculum improving not only the academic outcomes of the students with dyslexia but the non-disabled peers also.