Marco, a boy from a German school, was reading below grade level.
“After realizing that Marco had problems with reading and having a psychological assessment done, he had speech and language therapy for six months,” wrote his mother, Mrs Rimensberger. “Then we had his eyes tested and did a four-month vision therapy program at home. At the same time he attended English remedial lessons once a week for a year. All failed to bring about much progress to Marco’s reading ability. We then decided to try Audiblox.”
His remedial teacher, who tested Marco’s reading age before starting Audiblox reported that his reading age was 8.6 years. At the time Marco was ten years of age. Five months later he was retested. His remedial teacher wrote: “His reading age is now 10.5 years. The improvement is very good indeed — a 2 year improvement in 5 months.
“Marco could analyze words more confidently. He was often penalized because of poor pronunciation.
“Marco is still careless when reading simple words, e.g. went for wet, girls for girl and occasionally b/d confusion is still present. Most of his errors were due to the fact that the g in English can also be j.”
Susan du Plessis Case study author
