Dyslexia Articles
Understanding Early Literacy Difficulties in Children
Does your child struggle to recognise letters, match sounds to words, or avoid reading altogether? 📚If they get frustrated with homework or show low confidence in writing tasks, they may be experiencing early literacy difficulties. Literacy is more than reading and...
Why Expressive Language Can Be a Challenge for Children with Dyslexia — And How a Speech Pathologist Can Help
Title: Why Expressive Language Can Be a Challenge for Children with Dyslexia — And How a Speech Pathologist Can Help When most people think of dyslexia, reading and spelling struggles are usually the first things that come to mind. But what’s less commonly known is...
A Synthetic Phonics Approach Works BEST
Helping children with dyslexia learn to read requires a thoughtful, supportive approach, combining structured reading strategies with patient, positive reinforcement. Dyslexia is a language-based learning difficulty that primarily affects the ability to decode words,...
What Literacy Skills Should A Child Have By The End of Kindergarten?
Where Should My Child Be in Literacy by the End of Kindergarten? As parents, we all want to ensure that our children are progressing well in their early education, especially in key areas like literacy. Kindergarten years are formative in developing the foundational...
Does My Child Have Dyslexia? What signs would I need to look for?
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...
What Books Are Suitable For My Child Who Has Dyslexia?
At Perth Speech Therapy we know the importance of providing children with the correct decodable reader. The books children read should be matched to their phonic knowledge, not be given books that are a challenge otherwise they will become despondent, lack confidence...
Recommended Books for Children with Dyslexia
Parents need to be aware that many schools still give ‘whole language’ readers to children in pre-Primary to Year 2. Children with dyslexia cannot read the contents of these books as the readers are not at their phonic knowledge. They have words in them that CANNOT be...
A Phonics Approach is Proven to be the Best Approach for Teaching Children with Dyslexia to Spell
Victoria is embracing PHONICS. They are seeing GREAT changes in the children’s spelling. They DO NOT want to leave any child behind! LET’S MAKE A CHANGE W.A. in the way we deliver phonics. At Perth Speech Therapy we have been paving the way in delivering high-quality...
The Importance of a Child Being Able to Quickly Identify the Alphabet Sounds
Reading commences with a child being able to identify individual letters (sounds of the alphabet). Once they can confidently name the sounds, they are able to start blending and segmenting those sounds into words. Children with delay in alphabet knowledge will find...
What SHOULD BE and SHOULD NOT be taught in literacy from years Kindergarten, Pre-Primary, Year 1 & 2
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...
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