ReadingDoctor® Online provides an excellent vehicle for strengthening foundation skills that may have not been well established in previous school years. According to research and our clinical experience, a high percentage of children aged 8+ with reading difficulties have poorly established foundation skills (such as letter-sound knowledge, blending, segmentation and ability to recognise irregularly spelled, high frequency 'sight-words'.
The activities in the program have been designed to be as non-condescending as possible. We were aware that older students may be using the software so avoiding 'babyish' elements was an important aspect in our design. We have had great success using the program with older students in our clinic (and with adults, too).
In using the program with older students you may want to consider:
- Explaining the purpose of the program to the student and the importance of strengthening foundation skills
- Using the 'Options' menu to turn off the reward animations and sounds (especially for adult students)
- Using the 'Options' menu to turn off encouragement sounds (especially for adult students)
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