Full-Spectrum Neurological Response Instruction (NRI)™ Full-spectrum neurological response instruction is another name for multi-sensory direct instruction.  It is also the same as our forefather’s recite as you write way of teaching.  When the student is the recipient of full-spectrum neurological response instruction, he is asked to learn by exercising all four of his language-learning avenues—his speaking, hearing, writing, and seeing—in a connected, coordinated way.  In this way of learning, the brain is “fed” four correlative, supportive, interactive neurological messages. Consequently, when the brain is asked to retain or retrieve or analyze or associate or comprehend—whatever the cognitive request, each of its four neurological teammates is hot to trot to do its part to recall and make sense of its uniquely registered neurological message in tandem with the other three partner’s correlating information, to connect it, remember it, recognize it, organize it, analyze it, comprehend it.  All four neurological partners “naturally” work together to give a “neurologically informed” response, and it is the best—the optimal—response the student’s brain can give!