Most children start demonstrating their phonological awareness around the age of three and develop mastery of skills through the fourth and fifth year. They hear whole words and their syllables, onsets and rimes, e.g., ball-boat (onset), cat-hat (rime) and learn the sounds of individual letters (phonemes). Young children love hearing and making up silly sounds …
I like observing and appreciating how a student positively uncovers his unique learning style, which is a great motivator (by retaining learning) and a structured support for him, no matter what age. And how does he learn? He learns through a multisensory reading approach such as Orton-Gillingham or Wilson Reading System. A multisensory approach to reading …
I was fortunate to hear Mary J. Hughes, Ed. D. share her experiences of finding the appropriate educational placement for her dyslexic son, Kyle, at the Learning and the Brain Conference in Cambridge. Dr. Hughes’s challenging journey is chronicled in her book, The Wolf who Cried Boy. One paragraph that caught my attention is when she …