How To Help Children With Reading Disabilities
Psychology Today posted an interview with Dr. W. Fischer on children’s reading disabilities. The population of children with problem reading projected by Dr. Fischer is not small indeed.
How big is the population of children with problem reading? He estimated that, “perhaps 1 in 10 need extra help.”
“It depends on where you set the criteria, but about 10% of children have various difficulties learning to read.”
The figure worries us indeed. According to Dr. Fischer, “guidelines for spotting reading problems early”, “special training” and “recognizing different learning ways” can help children learn to read.
If your child is having trouble learning to read, what should you do? Here are some practical tips offered by Dr. Fischer:
- Try to help them by reading fun things.
- Teach them to play with the sounds of words.
- Break words down into basic sounds.
- Have your child read books, such as those of Dr. Suess. Those books are a fun way of practicing the skills they need for reading later on.
Even if our children have reading disabilities, it sounds that there would also have a way out. We all know that there are different kinds of learning/reading ways. The key is to figure it out for our children, no matter they have competence or deficits in reading.
New Recipe for Reading [PsychologyToday.com]