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| This hurts my hard sounds a three year old can say :( |
Let me start out by saying that I love to read. It should be no surprise. These next few post will be about how I learned to read. I read in a way dispute never learning phonics . Well not in the traditional way. I know what the letters are supposed to sound like but producing those sounds is a different story. This is due to Cerebral Palsy. Not all people with CP have speech issues. They range from no problems to using speech devices to talk. I would classify myself as somewhere in the middle. I do not need a speech device but sometimes people do not understand me. This can get frustrating. I do a lot of substituting which means that I would say cat as "tat" or dog as dod. I also do this for L's and R which i replace with a W. Let me make this really clear the reason for my lack of substituting sounds has nothing to do with intelligence. I am smart just see Monday's post. Now I hear myself fine and understand myself 100 percent of the time. Now this sounds contradictory but despite being able to hear all the sounds so I can sound out words I am a bad speller. Not sure why this is but I would like to be a better speller and I want to take a spelling class in the near future. Anyway this might seem that I would be a uphill battle to make me understand reading but it really wasn't.( at least that's not what I remember)
I hated learning phonics for me it was a reminder to me that I was 'different' in fact I remember being told that by my teachers, For parents of kids with articulation delays do not stress phonics. It is helpful to know phonics but it is not required. Model the sounds read to your kids but do not stress hearing the phonics from them. People who are non verbal can still read as well as long as people know how to teach them.
Here is a school that proves this
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1 comment:
A phonics question:
Do newsreaders in Arkansas say cerebral palsy so that C sounds out its letter, rather than "serebral palsy" or "zerebral palsy" (this is "as heard" from an English/Australian rendering)?
(I did know what they were referring to. It was a very unusual pronunciation to my ear).
Hope you do take a spelling class, AZ. I do think your spelling has improved over the years you've been writing this blog. Exposure and practice!
The steps/sequences of learning are roughly these (see something like LDOnline for something more detailed):
Input
Processing
Output
The Goodman table was very interesting. And I loved the caption: "My hard sounds a 3-year-old can say" (if he/she is in the 85% sample, and not in the 15% sample).
Did Oral Motor Therapy help you as a child and an adolescent?
On Your Mark Academy is a really good place because it emphasises movement and high expectations and high-interest learning.
There are probably some non-phonic reading schools out there.
I noticed a lot of larger-sized manipulatives were used for letters and numbers.
Learning to read in school probably makes a significant percentage of people think/know they're different.
In the matter, it's not how you learnt to read. It's that you learnt to read and that you continue to use it in your daily life.
R Gerholt has lots of good videos, like Alyssa and the spelling bee.
R Gerholdt's videos. He is a member of United Cerebral Palsy
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