Though all students are of different abilities and needs, Hanušová says that what is good for
a learning disabled student can perfectly work with other students as well (Hanušová, “Výuka
cizích jazyků” 3). Educators usually gain from a wide range of approaches, methods and
techniques, which are suggested to be successful in practice. As for language teaching,
communicative approach and learner-centred approach are regarded as most useful.
Communicative approaches such as Krashen‟s Natural Approach and Asher‟s TPR are reported
to work well with learning disabilities students (Bartoňová 106) for they are said to exhibit
greater results than grammar based approaches (Werstler 12). Students‟ autonomy is stressed
here, as well as their learning strategies and styles. For some a combination of communicative
and learner-cantered approaches is then considered to be the right choice (Hanušová, “Výuka
cizích jazyků” 6-7). Additionally, multi-sensory techniques accompanied with interventionist
strategies like kinetic and mnemonic techniques are quite often mentioned as being successful
with learning disabilities. I agree with an opinion that the point is to make language patterns
explicit, to over-learn, slow the pace of presentation and to “engage students by activating their
personal strengths and interests and by giving them individual space” (Marsh 21; Hanušová,
“Výuka cizích jazyků” 3-5; Bartoňová 104-107)