"Deborah Dashow Ruth concurs:Schools take the young child, who uses a style of imagery derived from direct perceptions through all of his senses, and, by teaching him the alphabet and its related linear skills of reading and writing, effectively reduce the child's sensory world to a series of visual abstractions. Unless the educational system integrates multisensory experiences into the curriculum, youth will continue to categorize school activities as separate from -- and irrelevant to -- their own multisensorily stimulated lives."