Direct Multisensory Instruction
The PRINCIPLES OF INSTRUCTION include:
- Simultaneous, multisensory teaching involves all pathways in the brain (visual, auditory, and tactile/kinesthetic simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
- Systematic and cumulative organization of materials and instruction that follows the logical order of language, beginning with the easiest and most basic elements and progressing methodically to more difficult material. Each step must be based on those already learned.
- Direct instruction—concepts are explicitly taught. The inferential learning of any concept cannot be taken for granted
- Diagnostic teaching allows the teacher to assess student abilities and progress and provide prescriptive or individualized teaching. The content presented must be mastered to the degree of automaticity.
- Synthetic and analytic instruction – Synthetic instruction presents the parts of language and then teaches how the parts work together to form a whole. Analytic instruction presents the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
