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Creative Techniques and Learning Disabilities

Many strategies for dealing effectively withOne example illustrates how sculpture can be
learning disabilities include multi-sensoryused to teach students about geometric
approaches. The thinking behind this isprinciples, while another shows how acting
simple: the more ways you give a person tocan enhance students' vocabularies. Clear,
remember something, the more chances theydetailed instructions allow readers to put
have of actually doing so. One approach thatthese techniques to use in their own homes or
works-particularly for the artisticallyclassrooms. Smith makes the important
inclined-is the use of creative techniques toargument that art is not only a fun way for
relay  and  interpret  academic  information.students to express themselves, but also
culturally  and  scholastically  enriching.
These techniques may include the integration
of visual art (such as painting, drawing, or2. Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete
photography), literary art (such as poems,Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at
short stories, or plays), music, or drama.Any  Level,  written  by  Sally  Shaywitz
Not only are these approaches entertaining
for students, they also make use of differentThis critically-acclaimed book uses science
areas of the brain, which promotes valuableto give evidence that artistic techniques are
cross-region  connections.an effective way to teach dyslexic students
how to read. Shaywitz-a Yale
There are two excellent sources on theneuroscientist-looks at the structure of the
subject,  which  are  profiled  below.dyslexic brain and how it functions.
Neurotechnology has proven that those with
1. The Power of the Arts: Creative Strategiesdyslexia use a different part of the brain to
for Teaching Exceptional Learners, written byread  than  those  without  dyslexia.
Sally  L.  Smith
Art can be used as a means to create
The author of this revolutionary book is oneconnections between the two areas of the
of the country's foremost experts on workingbrain, thus enabling the ability to make
with learning disabled students. She's thesense of written language. Shaywitz makes
founder and director of Washington D.C.'s Labthe compelling argument that dyslexia should
School, an institution she createdbe looked at not just as a weakness, but also
specifically for students with learningas a strength. She points to the large
differences. Smith is also a professor ofnumber of highly successful artists who have
education at American University and thestruggled with and benefited from their
mother of a child with scholasticdyslexia, including Pulitzer Prize winning
difficulties.playwright Wendy Wasserstein and bestselling
author  John  Irving.
All of these qualifications make her
well-suited to providing parents, teachers,Shaywitz provides in-depth case studies of
and other learning disability specialiststhese artists to illustrate how dyslexia
with information on the best techniques forallows for increased creativity and
working with special needs students. Thiscomprehension, while at the same time
book consists of interviews with facultyinhibiting the ability to decode letters and
members of the Lab School, who have foundpunctuation marks. She indicates that art
that incorporating art into their curriculumcan help to bridge the gap between these two
has made their lessons come alive for theirtypes of skills, which can lead to great
students.personal and professional achievement.



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