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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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Growing up my family had a lot of kids book lying around our house. Among with the Disney we had lots of step into reading books . Out of all of them the book I remember reading for the first time was Tiger is a Scaredy Cat. 
