Chances are, you are not getting the two ingredients that are crucial for helping you learn to read:
Research shows that most adults will continue to struggle with reading difficulties until these two elements are used for intervention.
Phonemic awareness. Adults with poor phonemic awareness show easily detectable symptoms. For example, they struggle with the sequence of sounds in words. They have trouble sounding out new words and often resort to guessing. They may also add, omit, and reverse sounds when reading.
According to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development:
"Of children who display reading problems in the first grade, 74% will be poor readers in the ninth grade and into adulthood unless they receive informed and explicit instruction on phonemic awareness. Children do not mature out of their reading difficulties."
See also: International Dyslexia Association and the Arizona Branch
Many schools still do not teach phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness must exist or be explicitly taught before phonics instruction begins. Otherwise, phonics will not make sense.
Multi-sensory treatment. Research shows that most adults will continue to struggle with reading, spelling and comprehension until a multi-sensory method is used for intervention.
Children with reading and spelling difficulties learn best by using several senses. We have been trained in the speech therapy based Lindamood-Bell® method, which is a new way to process letters and sounds. It’s kind of a two-heads are better than one approach to reading.
Our strong, multi-sensory learning method makes sense, where many other methods have not.
* Lindamood-Bell ®. Lindamood-Bell ® is a registerd trademark of Lindamood-Bell Learning Process of San Luis Obispo, CA. The Reading Clinic is not affilliated with or sponsored, accredited, certified or endorsed by Lindamood-Bell Learning Process.
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