Phonemic Awareness and Orton-Gillingham Programs for Dyslexia

Submitted by Judy Hanning on Mon, 2018-08-06 15:57

Programs that promote phonemic awareness are most effective in improving the reading skills of children with dyslexia. The author lists many resources, including some that can be downloaded for free.

Simply put, children with true dyslexia usually have phonemic awareness deficits (dyslexia). Reading Recovery does not work on fixing a phonemic awareness deficit, so it often doesn’t work for our kids.
~ Learning Abled Kids

Key Takeaways:

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Your child probably lacks phonemic awareness if they have dyslexia.
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To overcome true dyslexia teaching reading through phonemic awareness programs at home or in school is critical.
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For children with true dyslexia learning by the whole word, recognition is least likely to be successful.
Read the full article here:
https://learningabledkids.com/reading/remediation.htm