Reading Problems In Your Child ?

Reading helps in improving brain connectivity, vocabulary & comprehension. One of the ways to encourage the child to read is by reading along with the child.

Few Signs for parents to notice in the child are:

• Speech delay or difficulty in speaking – rail as lail OR fish as fis
• Names/Sounds of letters or word – get, pet
• Making Words & Breaking them into sounds – act for cat
• Pronouncing words/spellings – Aminal for Animal
• Confuse sequence/order of letters – An owl is a bird.
• Reversals – b & d, p & q
• Inversions – m & w
• Transpositions – left & felt
• Omissions – wet for went
• Skipping lines
• Not reading aloud
• Taking lot of time to read
• Grammar/language

Few Possible Solutions for parents to help their child:

• Read/Re-read Dictionary
• Stories
• Sounds Practice
• Say, Talk & Write
• Games:
  • Scrabble
  • Jumbled words
  • Treasure hunt
  • Memory game