Adapting Curriculum to Multisensory Instruction

To adapt the curriculum you already have towards multisensory teaching, you will examine the curriculum to assess what multisensory components the curriculum already contains. If the curriculum is already in your child's primary learning style, you should be able to use the lesson "as is" with the addition of supplemental sensory activities for variety and reinforcement.

If the curriculum is primarily taught through a learning channel that is different from your child's primary learning style, you will want to find related multisensory learning activities. These activities should be in your child's primary learning style to use in first introducing the new content. You can still use the main curriculum as learning reinforcement, adding in additional multisensory activities wherever possible, but your child will learn better if you shift towards providing as many additional activities as possible in your child's primary and secondary learning styles.

To create a fully multisensory program from your current curriculum, brainstorm ideas for activities to cover sensory styles that are not already included in the curriculum. The next several pages of this tutorial contain lists of ideas for each learning style. You may want to print the lists for your child's primary and secondary learning style, and preferably all of the lists for later reference. Use the listed ideas to add sensory dimensions to your lessons, or create your own multisensory activities based upon your child's needs and interests.

To practice, think of a concept your child is currently working on and go to the next page..