Speech development is a crucial process as it enables communication. It starts from a very early age when a kid starts to babble and make various sounds. If the grasping skills are strong, the child may start speaking clear sentences at the very first year of school, and sometimes at home too. However, progress does … Read more
Reading programs offer more than conventional ways of building skills. These programs involve activities based on multisensory learning and pave the easy path for reading strugglers. Educators devised different approaches to teaching reading skills to give an equal chance of learning to all. These approaches structured the acquisition process of reading skills and promoted individualized … Read more
Dyslexia, which is a learning disorder of difficulty in reading and writing, and Dyscalculia, which is the inability to perform simple arithmetic and maths-related problems are learning disorders that can result in certain alterations in the daily routine of some individuals. Inability to effectively read maps is one such issue at hand. If you are … Read more
Reading difficulties are a reality, and the efforts are on to help beginners overcome those sustainably. A few noted educators did commendable work to develop methods that helped work around reading difficulties. Some used the phonetic development approach while others concentrated on lexical knowledge and application of cognition. Based on these approaches, a few language … Read more
A popular saying goes, “Children are like wet cement; whatever falls on them makes an impression”. It is thus very necessary to choose a reading program for kids carefully. The Barton Reading Program was created around this concept of using colour-coded tiles to help dyslexic students establish connections between sounds and letters to help them … Read more
Dyslexia is not a disease that can be cured. It needs to be worked around and managed. In many cases, dyslexia remains undiagnosed because people choose to give up on their academic endeavors instead of getting assessed for special learning needs. The good news is that there is no need to hide behind excuses or … Read more
REVIEWED BY NUMBERDYSLEXIA’S EXPERT REVIEW PANEL ON DEC 17, 2021 We all know 3 comes after 2 and Z after Y due to the sequential commemoration of numbers and alphabets. The same notion can be applied to retain shapes and pictures too. But, not all kids can grasp this in their tender years. Sometimes, they need individualized … Read more
Dyslexia interferes with the ability to recognize and form letters. It reflects poor reading and writing skills. Previously, when the term was not known all those people who could not read or write were branded academically poor. But, there were several innovators and creative geniuses like Einstein, Picasso, who showed that the inability to read … Read more
Isn’t it exceptional for a child with learning disabilities to get a specialized approach to cope with peers? A good deal of educators believe and strive for finer instruction techniques for them by bringing neuroscientific information and principles of remediation together. Even if compromised neurologically, learners can now keep up with their learning persuasively. To … Read more
Whether your student is just a toddler or a grown-up pursuing English as a Foreign Language, you are required to teach them about root words. The root word is the main part of any word minus the suffix/prefix or any other modification. For example, in the word activity, “active” is the root word derived from … Read more