SLOOM! M is for multi-sensory
SLOOM! M is for Multisensory There is no shortage of multi-sensory teaching advice. An online search for the phrase “multi-sensory teaching” (MT) yields tens of millions of results (including plenty of play-dough and a few strange pictures of tongues). This approach was first pioneered by Orton-Gillingham in the 1930s (in name, at least) and promotes giving readers more than one sensory method to learn new skills: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. MT's underlying principle