Student Counseling Center
Suggested Aids for Learning Modalities
VISUAL(Learn best by seeing) |
AUDITORY(Learn best by hearing) |
KINESTHETIC(Learn best by touching, doing, moving) |
| Use guided imagery | Use tapes | Pace/ walk as you study |
| Form pictures in your mind | Watch TV | Physically "do it" |
| Take notes | Listen to music | Practice by repeated motion |
| See parts of words | Speak/ listen to speakers | Breathe slowly |
| Use "cue" words | Make up rhymes/ poems | Role play |
| Use notebooks | Read aloud | Exercise |
| Use color codes | Talk to yourself | Dance |
| Use study cards | Repeat things orally | Write |
| Use pictures | Use rhythmic sounds | Write on surfaces with finger |
| Watch film, movie, etc. | Have discussions | Take notes |
| Use charts, graphs, and maps | Listen carefully | Associate feelings with concept/ information |
| Demonstrate | Use oral directions | Write lists repeatedly |
| Draw/ use drawings | Sound out words | Stretch/ move in chair |
| Use exhibits | Use theater | Watch lips move in front of mirror |
| Watch lips move in front of a mirror | Say words in syllables | Use mnemonics |
| Use mnemonics | Use mnemonics |
Copied with permission from: Learning to Learn, ©1990 by Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN.
If you are a student of The University of Texas at Tyler and would like to participate in the Learning Strategies Program, you may take the LASSI on-line. It takes approximately 20 minutes to complete the LASSI assessment. Please call or come by the Student Counseling Center at 903.566.7254 (UC 3170) to obtain a password and to set up an appointment with a counselor to create your individualized program.