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Subject: Blending sounds and learning disability Author: Vikki Chester-Walsh [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 13:36:06 07/13/09 Mon I am a parent of two children. One of whom is 12 years old and has a learning difficulty, and one 4 years old and just learning to read. They both are learning to read and spell using synthetic phonics. They both followed the same process until it came to blending sounds. My 12 year old was completely unable to grasp the concept despite continued use of the multi-sensory method (auditory, tactile and visual). We were then playing a game of 'splitting sounds' in words, e.g. do you know a bl-ack d-o-g? My son then began to split sounds into the 'blends'we had been practising. The moral of the story is to try lots of different ways of getting the information across and don't assume that the information you have given has not been 'learned'. For children with learning difficulties it may be a difficulty in expressing the sounds rather than in encoding (taking it in) it. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]