What is the Reading Doctor?
This software was designed by a Speech-Language Pathologist and Reading Researcher. Research has shown that the most important factor determining whether a child will become a successful reader is their ability to use letter-sound patterns to "decode" unfamiliar words. A phonics-based approach helps children form the link between the spoken word and the visual codes associated with the written word.
The reading doctor software is ideal for children between the ages of four (4) and eight (8) years of age or for older children who are struggling to read. The program strengthens the following important areas:-
- Letter Sound Knowledge- knowledge of the letters or groups of letters which represent the individual sounds in language.
- Phonemic Awareness - awareness of individual sounds in words.
- Phonological Awareness - awareness of the sound structure of language.
- Blending - the ability to join sounds together to make words.
- Segmentation - the ability to break words up into separate sounds.
- Sight Word Recognition - the ability to recognize the most common words in written language.
- Auditory Discrimination - the ability to tell the difference between similar sounds or words.
- Visual Discrimination - ability to tell the difference between visually similar letters or words.
- Word Knowledge - vocabulary
- Articulator Awareness - awareness of how sounds are formed by the mouth and articulators'.
Please contact the clinic for information about this program.