Multisensory Educational Software

According to www.earlytolearn.com "multisensory learning happens when more than one sense is used to acquire and retain information"; for example, learning through hearing as well as touching.  Multisensory Educational Software is software that allows students to learn this way.

This type of software can be beneficial for a multitude of students, including students with ADHD, and all of those different types of learners we all have in our classrooms: the visual learners, kinesthetic learners, and auditory learners.  A common theme throughout my posts has been how to eliminate those curriculum barriers and making the information accessible to all learners.  This software seems like a great tool to open up information to a wide variety of learning styles.

One example of multisensory educational software is TouchMath.  The video below is of a teacher demonstrating how to teach addition with regrouping using the TouchMath software.  The software walks the student through the math problem and includes a think aloud, which I think is key.  This program seems as though it would be helpful in developing "math thinkers". 

Reference: http://www.earlytolearn.com/2009/featured/what-is-multisensory-learning-or-avk/