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Since the dyslexic child has faulty visual and auditory perception, Mrs. McGlannan tries to reinforce these senses by stressing touch techniques. Children make human and animal figures out of clay to get a clearer conception of spatial relationships, work with big Masonite squares and circles to get a grip on geometric symbols. They stand on one foot and hold out their arms to comprehend the ideas of leftness and rightness. They manipulate letters that have been fashioned from pipe cleaners, feel the shapes with their eyes closed as the teacher pronounces the letter's sound. The aim, says...
...many reading centers, including New York University's Reading Institute and the Orton Reading Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. Tutorial instruction at Columbia Teachers College clearly shows, says the college's Mrs. Marvin Sleisenger, that such children can learn if "we teach in slow motion." But Frances McGlannan, whose own son's dyslexia led her to found the Language Arts Center in Miami to help such children, puts through 70 students at a time under 18 teachers, takes about a year to enable second-graders to rejoin their public-school classmates at the proper reading level. Older...
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