Resources and Recommended Products
These resources provide a comprehensive understanding and various strategies for assisting children with dyslexia, fostering a love for reading for your child, and offering early literacy support. They are excellent starting points for parents and educators seeking guidance and support in these areas.
Helping Children with Dyslexia:
Child Mind Institute provides detailed insights into understanding dyslexia, its diagnosis, and how to support kids who have it. This includes social and emotional impacts, when to get an evaluation, and effective accommodations in school.
Decoding Dyslexia is a parent-led movement focused on raising awareness and providing resources for children with dyslexia.
Early Intervention Literacy Tips:
Reading Rockets is a valuable resource for parents and educators. It offers articles, strategies, and a wealth of resources on early literacy and teaching children with dyslexia.
The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Reading Check out this article on reading and how YOU can help your child and why it is so important.
Empowering Children to Love Reading:
Understood provides practical strategies for parents to help children with dyslexia at home. It offers tips on building vocabulary, choosing books for struggling readers, and developing good reading habits.
Resources for Teachers:
UFLI is an excellent resource for teachers and educators providing the most research based lessons on teaching reading through the Science of Reading approach.
The Secret Stories is a purchased program for teachers to seamlessly add tricky phonic rules into their reading curriculum in an engaging yet memorable way for their students.
Speech and Language
Speech and language delays can significantly impact a child's reading and phonics skills. These delays may hinder the development of phonological awareness, an essential precursor to reading, affecting the ability to recognize and manipulate sounds in language. Children with speech delays might struggle with decoding words, leading to difficulties in blending sounds to form words and in segmenting words into individual sounds for spelling. Consequently, these challenges can affect reading fluency, comprehension, and the overall learning experience, emphasizing the need for early identification and intervention to support literacy development. If you have concerns with your child’s speech or language please reach out to TALK for more information.
