Hello
I am posting looking for some ideas or advice on how I might be able to help my son with global developmental delay progress with his reading.
A bit of background - he is 7.5 and nearing the end of P3 (we are in Scotland). Has been in the NHS system from months old when his failure to meet early milestones was noted. Has had extensive investigations but no diagnosis yet. Biggest issues are with language (expressive more affected, receptive far better but still delayed) and fine motor skills. He also has issues with vision - his actual eyesight is fine with glasses, but he has problems with visual perception, tracking, etc.
So! With all this going on we knew that reading was going to be very difficult for him.
However, he has made some progress. He knows all his sounds and a fair amount of two letter sounds (diagraphs?). For 2 years he has been able to sound out and blend CVC words and some longer words when reading. Phonics appears to be a relative strength for him. If you ask him to tell you the sounds in many spoken words, not looking at a page just by listening, he is generally able to tell you the sounds in the word.
That said, we just don't seem able to get past the stage of having to sound everything out before blending. As I mentioned, he has been doing this for 2 years now. How does this skill become automatic, is there anything I can do to help him with this or is it just a case of plodding on? I'm beginning to wonder if phonics is good for him long term, I know he will struggle with the more complex rules further down the line. However, the whole word method does not appear to help either - we do practise common and tricky words, he can get the hang of this, but unless we practise them most days he tends to forget them and this is just not sustainable.
Have posted in SN chat as well.
Many thanks!
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Son with GDD - how do I help him read?
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rubenz · 27/03/2015 11:07
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