Vol­un­teers from the T&T arm of Au­r­al, Read, Re­spond, Oral, Write (AR­ROW) de­scend­ed on the Croisee, San Juan, on June 22 in the form of a danc­ing flash mob in an at­tempt to raise pub­lic aware­ness of the or­gan­i­sa­tion's ex­is­tence and what it does. AR­ROW is a mul­ti-sen­so­ry ap­proach pro­gramme de­vel­oped by Dr Col­in Lane in the UK, and fos­ters learn­ing through self-voice tech­niques. The pro­gramme can be used by chil­dren and adults, even those who have learn­ing dif­fi­cul­ties.

Lane's re­search spans al­most 30 years, and his method of im­prov­ing read­ing and spelling has been used in Lit­er­a­cy Sum­mer Schools, main­stream and spe­cial schools across the UK. The pro­gramme is aimed at al­ter­ing the neur­al process­es of stu­dents, par­tic­u­lar­ly with ref­er­ence to in­ter­nal­is­ing skills, pro­mot­ing mo­ti­va­tion and in­ter­est re­sult­ing in in­creas­es in at­ten­tion abil­i­ty and self-es­teem. From Sep­tem­ber to De­cem­ber AR­ROW T&T, which is based in Port-of-Spain, will host a se­ries of aware­ness-build­ing events through­out the coun­try.