Home Test to Identify Reading Problems
Imagine not being able to read. Your academic career would not venture further than high school, seriously hampering your chances of ever working your way up in the world. You could never apply for a job without assistance, being incapable of filling in an application form...
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Preventing the Three D’s: Preparing Your Child for the Three R’s
When children are unable to master the three R's, they become prone to the three D's — dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia. What can parents do to prepare their children for the three R's and prevent the three D's?
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Die Rol van Werkende Geheue in Lees
Die term werkende geheue is in die 1970’s deur twee navorsers, Baddeley en Hitch saamgestel, en verwys na die vermoë om tydelik sekere feite of gedagtes in die geheue te hou terwyl ‘n probleem opgelos word of ‘n taak verrig word...
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Feite Oor Visuele Geheue
Verskeie navorsers het beweer dat soveel as tagtig persent van alle leer deur die oë plaasvind, wat beteken dat visuele geheue 'n beslissende aspek van leer vorm. Visuele geheue is die vermoë om visuele waarnemings te stoor en later, as die oorspronklike waarneming nie langer sigbaar is nie, weer te herroep. Hier is paar feite oor visuele geheue...
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Learning Disabilities Clarified: Learning is a Skill
The subject of this discussion, that learning is a skill, is apparently one of those ideas that are generally regarded as self-evident. Most people, however, do not seem to realise the implications involved.
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Help for Children with Learning Difficulties
In modern Western society mastery of basic academic skills — reading, writing and arithmetic — is a necessary prerequisite for success in both school and employment settings and society at large. However, due to learning difficulties, the futures of many children are put in jeopardy.
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‘n Swak Geheue Kan Leer Belemmer
Om te kan leer, moet 'n persoon iets wat hy waargeneem het, kan stoor om dit sodoende later weer te kan herroep. Die mens se vermoë om te kan memoriseer of onthou, maak leer dus moontlik....
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Why Phonics Instruction Sometimes Fails
Because of the complexity of written English, more than a century of debate has occurred over whether English phonics should or should not be used in teaching beginning reading...
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Learning Principles More Important than Learning Styles
Although there is some value in adjusting to a preferred learning style, its value should not be overrated. Learning principles, which are universal, are of far greater importance than learning styles, which are individual.
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Dyslexia: Is the Shoe Perhaps on the Wrong Foot?
Reading is the most important skill that a child must acquire at school, because one must learn to read to be able to read to learn. The implication of this is that the child who is a poor reader will usually also be a poor learner.
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