Olivia B.

The Importance of Reading Fluency

Reading fluency is the ability to read with speed, accuracy and fluidity. Students with reading difficulties must stop to decode unfamiliar words which stops comprehension. Fluent readers read and comprehend simultaneously. Fluency training...

Dysgraphia: Is It Just Bad Handwriting?

Students with dyslexia, ADD, and ADHD may suffer from dysgraphia, a learning disability that adversely affects handwriting. They require targeted remediation in order for their handwriting skills to improve. Curricula targeted to handwriting difficulties...

Phonemic Awareness: The Key to Reading Success

Phonemic Awareness is one of the most accurate predictors of future reading success or failure. Children with dyslexia and other reading difficulties usually have inadequate phonemic awareness skills. Through early diagnosis and intervention reading failure...

Auditory Processing Disorder

Kids with auditory processing disorder have an issue which affects how their brain recognizes and processes sound. They typically don't suffer from hearing loss, but rather struggle to differentiate subtle differences in words. If not identified,this...

Spelling Curricula for Dyslexic Students

There are a growing number of spelling curricula designed to assist with instructing students who have dyslexia or who otherwise struggle with spelling. They use innovative instructional methods which often succeed where conventional methods...

Remediating Dyslexia with Phono-Graphix

Phono-Graphix is an instructional method with documented success in remediating reading and spelling difficulties in students with diagnosed learning disabilities. Rather than relying on traditional phonics instruction, it heavily emphasizes phonemic...

Building Vocabulary Through Morphemes

Direct instruction in the most common morphemes (prefixes, suffixes, and root words) can greatly enhance the vocabulary of struggling readers. Since the most common morphemes comprise thousands of words, knowledge of them can build vocabulary...

Word Attack Strategies For Struggling Readers

Many schools discontinue decoding instruction after 3rd grade.This is often problematic for struggling readers who lack skills to tackle the multi-syllabic vocabulary encountered from 4th grade on. Word attack instruction teaches techniques to make it...

Overview of Cognitive Skills Training Programs

Many academic struggles are the result of weaknesses in one or more of the basic cognitive skills which support learning. Cognitive skills training works to strengthen weak cognitive skills so that academic learning ability is enhanced.

Enhancing Learning Ability Through Cognitive Skills Training

At the core of most learning disabilities is a processing deficit in one or more cognitive skill areas. Cognitive skills training focuses on strengthening these underlying deficits so that overall academic learning ability can be improved.