Using color and shape coding to teach sentence structure in Chinese

Because learning disabilities are often due to certain kinds of processing deficiencies, it is often necessary to use multisensory instruction when working with students with learning disabilities (LD), so that they can learn through other cognitive pathways than those of conventional instruction which they cannot access effectively. The purpose of this study is to apply such principles to activities for helping LD students learn grammatical features, such as sentence structure in Mandarin Chinese, and to provide a detailed example of one such activity.