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100 Powerful Learning Specialist and Educational Therapy Materials

This week I wanted to tell you about my online store, Good Sensory Learning. I’m Dr. Erica Warren, and I established this site so I could share all the materials that I have created over the last 20+ years as a learning specialist and educational therapist. When I first began my private practice, Learning to Learn, I had great difficulty finding fun and multisensory materials for my students that were effective and engaging. So back in 2005, I made it my mission to design and distribute high-end, remedial products as well as memorable, motivating lessons that bring delight to learning. If you would like to try a free sampling of my activities , CLICK HERE . How Are the Products Organized at Good Sensory Learning? You can download my Free Printable Catalog or you can browse the site using the grey “search all products” bar in the top right of any page with keywords such as dyslexia, working memory, and executive functioning. What’s more, drop down menus in the red banner allow you t...

Dyslexia: Understanding and Remediating Auditory Processing Skills

Although there are a number of cognitive processing deficits that can cause a diagnosis of dyslexia or a reading disability, challenges with auditory processing tend to be the prevailing cause for many struggling readers. However, many of the terms used to describe these core problems can be confusing. In fact, wading through a comprehensive testing report can be overwhelming, because they are packed with complex cognitive and remedial terminology. In this blog, I hope to unscramble the tangle of terms associated with auditory processing.
Difference between phonics and phonemic awareness
What are Some Key Terms One Should Understand?
  • Auditory Processing: Auditory processing is the brain's interpretation of the sounds we hear. A difficulty or delay with auditory processing is not an issue with hearing, but with the understanding of what is heard. It's a complex operation that involves auditory synthesis, auditory closure, auditory sequencing, auditory discrimination, segmenting and auditory memory.
  • Auditory Synthesis or Auditory Blending: The ability to pull together individual sounds to form words.
  • Auditory Closure: The ability to fill in any missing sounds to decode a word. For example, this may involve understanding what someone with a foreign accent maybe saying when they delete a sound or two in a word.
  • Auditory Sequencing: The ability to properly order language sounds in words or sentences. For example, a child may reverse the units of sound so that when they say the word animal it comes out "aminal."
  • Auditory Discrimination: The ability to recognize differences between sounds. For example, some students may struggle hearing the difference between the short "e" and "a" sounds.
  • Segmenting: The ability to break a word into individual sounds or phonemes.
  • Auditory Memory: The ability to remember what is heard.
  • Phonological Processing: The ability to detect and discriminate a broad awareness of sounds including rhyming words, alliterations, syllables, blending sounds into words, as well as deleting or substituting sounds.
  • Phonemes: The tiny units of sound that make up speech - such as the letter sounds.
  • Phonemic Awareness: The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds - also known as phonemes. This, for example, includes the ability to detect the first sound, middle sound and end sound in a word.
  • Phonics: A method of teaching reading by pairing sounds with letters or groups of letters. It is the process of mapping speech into print.
  • Receptive Language: The ability to understand the language that we input, including both words and gestures.
How Can These Difficulties be Remediated?
I hope you found this helpful. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Cheers, Dr. Erica Warren
Dr. Erica Warren is the author, illustrator, and publisher of multisensory educational materials at Good Sensory Learning and Dyslexia Materials. She is also the director of Learning to Learn and Learning Specialist Courses.

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