Why do Speech Pathologists work on Literacy?
Why Choose a Speech Pathologist to help your child with Literacy?
Expertise: Speech Pathologists are trained in understanding sounds. They know how sounds and words are formed (phonemic awareness) and how grammatical changes affect meaning and pronunciation.
Fun Learning: They make learning enjoyable and can explain tricky concepts in simple ways.
What are the Key Skills for Reading & Spelling?
Letter Recognition: Quickly identifying letters and their sounds.
Sound Manipulation: Changing sounds in words (e.g., removing the first sound or swapping vowels).
Segmenting: Breaking words into individual sounds or syllables, essential for spelling new words.
Blending: Combining separate sounds to form words, crucial for reading new words.
What Speech Pathologists do to treat Reading and Spelling difficulties.
Assessments: We identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses in reading and spelling.
Tailored Therapy Approach: We create personalised programs based on assessment results and feedback from parents and teachers.
Support: We help children from preschool through high school keep up with the curriculum and build strong literacy foundations.
Therapy Benefits: by the end of our Therapy Approach, your child will improve in:
Understanding the link between letters, sounds, and words.
Knowing letter-sound correspondences.
Segmenting for spelling and blending for reading.
Using these skills in everyday reading and spelling tasks.
Our phonics-based, multi-sensory literacy therapy has shown fantastic results. Research shows these positive changes are permanent, meaning once a child learns to process sounds correctly, they maintain these skills. We use principles of the Sounds-Write program, Sound Waves and the Orton-Gillingham Approach.
