Regardless of having all senses or lacking one (or two), everybody is oriented in three basic ways when processing information.
1) Visual
2) Aural - Hearing
3) Kinetic - Touch/Motion
More people process learning aurally unless they are deaf. However, a good percentage of people are visual whether hearing or otherwise (deaf). There are not many that learn kinetically. Many school systems have figured out that they can combine the visual and aural approaches and meet most of the student's needs.
Unfortunately for the last group, they are often are not considered when being taught by the educational system thus prone to have much higher failure rates. To give an example of such a student and the problems for the educational "system". This type of person learns by feeling, touching, moving, in some ways by being constantly in motion (not the same as hyperactivity per se...a whole different issue). They might be learn from a book by rocking or walking around all the time. The motion is kinetic and thus allows them to process the information. Now, how many educational settings can tolerate a student or two that move a lot? This is not a student that is trying to be distracting but is trying to learn in a matter fitting for them!
