by Jenny Edgar | Jan 8, 2023 | Dyslexia
WHAT do children need? They need to be taught: Phonological Awareness, Phonics, Fluency and Vocabulary WHY do they need these skills? Early, explicit, and systematic instruction in phonics, along with directinstruction in phonological awareness, can...
by Jenny Edgar | Jan 8, 2023 | Dyslexia
KINDERGARTEN children SHOULD BE exposed to and actively involved in: Learning Phonological Awareness activities (such as rhyme, syllabification, compound words, onset and rime) Learning Nursery rhymes Hearing fairy-tales and joining in the chants...
by Jenny Edgar | Jan 8, 2023 | Language Development
Do bilingual children develop their language slower than monolingual children? Bilingualism is defined as the ability to learn and use two languages in everyday living. Children who are bilingual, in general, are under referred to Speech Pathologists due to general...
by Jenny Edgar | Jan 8, 2023 | Dyslexia
What is dyslexia? The word ‘Dyslexia’ means ‘difficulty with words’. Dyslexia is considered to be a neurological disorder where a person may have difficulty with all or some of the following: spelling reading writing comprehension What are typical signs that a child...
by Jenny Edgar | Jan 8, 2023 | Speech Sounds
This is a term used to describe the situation when a child uses a single consonant sound in place of other consonant sounds. The more extensive the phoneme collapse is, the more unintelligible the child’s speech, due to the large number of sounds that are being...
