This is a survey of educators' observation of teaching dyslexic and similar special needs students through optimal input or other forms of comprehensible input such as TPR,  TPRS,  OWl,  Story Listening, Movie Talk ect..  Also included are immersion or strong communicative classrooms where language is acquired through communication, the expression and interpretation of meaning in a given context.

*Communicative teaching means different things to different teachers.  This study uses the definition of communication as defined by Professor Bill Vanpatten "the expression and interpretation of meaning in a given context".  Communicative teaching for this study will be any approach where the language is predominantly learned or acquired through communicative input or output.  Normally defined as Strong Communicative Teaching.

*The learning disabilities covered in this survey are dyslexia,  dysgraphia,  or any mild to moderate specific learning disability (SLD) related to language or information processing.