Auditory Processing Exercises
Today I’ve revised the section of the Guide I call The Auditory Piece (of the dyslexia puzzle.) You’ll find information on using manipulatives, or letter tiles, to help train the skill of phoneme manipulation on the Page Auditory Processing with Tiles, and the information on training phoneme manipulation strictly by oral means has been moved to the Page Oral Auditory Processing.
I have used the exercises described on those two Guide Pages with all clients who fail to score 100% on the Auditory Processing Test described in the phonics section of the Guide. All clients who have completed the curriculum have managed to score 100% on the test by graduation, usually by the 5th or 6th session or so. Phoneme manipulation is a necessary skill for reading English and it can be trained effectively.
On another note, the reasons my new posts in here have tailed off are two-fold: First, while the Guide on the Sidebar will never be complete as long as we have new information to uncover on reading problems and how to help struggling readers, I have managed to put the bulk of what I consider useful onto the site by now.
However, I had a decision to make as to whether or not to make available my Advanced Code Workbook for purchase by parents for use with your children or to just keep uploading files to the site. About 25% of the workbook is already on the site, but I realize it would be both a chore and very confusing to try to put together a curriculum from a bunch of downloaded files.
So the other reason for my infrequent posting lately is that I’ve been re-writing the Advanced Code Workbook that I use with each of my young clients with the intent of making it available through Lulu.com, an on-line, on-demand publisher. I’ve about completed it, but I need to also re-write the instruction manual that accompanies it, which I’m in the middle of doing now.
My intent is to have Lulu.com sell the workbook, so parents and instructors can order from their website (at a quite reasonable price, I think) and then to make the instructions available in two forms, either in print from Lulu.com or as a PDF file that can be downloaded either from this site free or from Lulu.com at a small fee.
For those of you reading this who’ve seen my existing workbook, the main change will be paper color. The blue paper won’t be available. However, I did order a coil-bound recipe book of the same approximate size as my workbook, and I was very satisfied with the product. About the only change you should notice will be the paper color, and with the instructions available in here as a PDF, the price will actually be significantly less than it would be if I was mailing them out myself. Shipping will even be available at the media mail rate, which can be slow, but the book I ordered that way arrived within five days.
The title will tentatively be OnTrack Reading Advanced Code Workbook and will have a color cover designed by my son, Matt, the graphic designer in the family.
So that’s what’s been going on. Plus I became a Grandpa for the first time two weeks ago. For now, take a look at the changes to The Auditory Piece.