99 Ways to Get Kids to Love Reading by Mary Leonhardt

Author:Mary Leonhardt [Leonhardt, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-55410-9
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 1997-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

KIDS WITH A READING DISABILITY

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If your child is very late in learning how to read, arrange for learning disability testing.

Most children acquire beginning reading skills by second grade, or certainly by third. If you have a seven- or eight-year-old who is reading very poorly, or not at all, have the child’s auditory and visual processes tested. Some children, for example, have perfect hearing but don’t process what they hear very well. Perhaps they can’t easily tell the difference between similar sounds (auditory discrimination), or remember what they hear (auditory memory). You can require your school to do this testing, or have it done privately.

You’re trying to find out if your child has some deficit that is making learning to read harder. For example, if you have a daughter with a very poor visual memory, she’ll need to be taught reading by oral means, with phonics. Most children are a little stronger in some areas than in others but can really learn in many ways. But some children are so weak in a processing area that they require specialized teaching that utilizes their areas of strength.

Look at it this way. If you had a son with a severe hearing loss, you wouldn’t give him elaborate oral directions on how to get somewhere. You’d show him a map. Likewise, a child with very poor auditory discrimination is going to have a hard time learning to read with phonics instruction. He doesn’t hear the differences in sounds.

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