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This must read free report "The Top 10 Mistakes Parents of Children with Speech Disorders Make" is essential for parents or caregivers of a child with apraxia. Please enter your name and email below to receive it. Apraxia and Reading"Above all, children love to be read to. It is a special time for them to be close to the grown-ups who care for them, and a wonderful way to feel loved" (B. Bush, 1993)
As busy parents, especially with a child with special needs such as apraxia, time for reading often gets lost during the day. It is so important to begin reading to your child at a young age. Reading improves vocabulary, memory skills and speech skills. Using books with rhyming text has been useful.
Sturdy board books with pictures to identify helps your child learn new vocabulary words and to consistently practice naming familiar objects.
Learning to ReadHow do you teach a child struggling to talk to read? One of the biggest struggles with teaching a child with apraxia to read is difficulty with phonetic awareness - they have a lot of trouble identifying the letter sounds and some letter sounds they simply can't produce. Any activity to increase awareness of the sounds of letters would be helpful. For more ideas on increasing awareness of letter sounds and learning to read, please see Chapter 16 of my eBook Apraxia Explained We worked with our daughter at home in teaching her to read. She was still struggling with pronouncing some of the letter sounds and had an initial problem with reversing letters, which are early warning signs of dsylexia. As many as 75% of apraxic children are diagnoised with some form of dyslexia. Dylexia can range from mild to profound, with a wide range of symptoms. It may show up as difficulty reading, poor handwriting, lack of phonological awareness or poor spelling. Sound therapy and EFA supplementation both have a positive effect on dyslexia and research has shown they can greatly reduce the symptoms. For additional information on dyslexia and a list of early warning signs, please click here - Dyslexia After learning to read, we noticed a gain in her speech. She had a lot of trouble with dropping off the ending sounds of words. Seeing the ending letter in print made her more aware of it and sounding out the words gave her a lot of practice in her speech.
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Nursery-Rhymes-Fun.com is a great resource for fun nursery rhymes, poems and stories which are excellent for speech development and learning to read. Academic Associates of Prince George and the World offers a systematic, easy-to-learn reading program. This program will take the student [child or adult] through the steps of reading. When finished, they will be able to read the majority of words in the English language. The program is taught one-on-one with one of our Reading Instruction Specialists. Reading For Kids is a free phonics based reading program.
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