When used as a phonics method to teach literacy, uniskript instructors use specific manual gestures to accompany each one of the visual shapes. Each manual gesture is carefully designed to mimic both, the process of articulation in the mouth and the visual shape proposed for the phoneme.  The aim of the program, in this case,  is to explore cross-modal correspondences involving auditory, visual and haptic senses simultaneously, so students experience learning in a sensorial and intuitive way. To discuss the research on mouth-hand movements neurological mappings is beyond the scope of this working paper, but I want to shortly mention that several researchers have demonstrated that bilabial sounds are associated with grip movements of the hand, while alveolar sounds are associated with hand pinça movements. ........... argues that front vowels and forward hand movements are associated, while backward hand movements are associated ...........