How can the student learn to use alternative reading methods?
• An instructional program for alternative reading is much like a conventional reading program with introduction of basic skills and a daily regimen for practice before moving on to more advanced skills. • The big difference is that the onset for instruction for visual reading was in 1st grade working with peers while the onset of instruction in aural reading often starts at 5th to 8th grade and is done with peers continuing to use standard visual reading. An adolescent starting to do something that is different from peers has its own problems apart from the challenge of learning a new approach. Patience, persistence, flexibility, and support are needed for success. • Preadolescent students typically do not have the emotional and social obstacles that adolescents do. For them it is mostly learning aural reading methods and practicing skills. The emotional and social issues regarding having to be different will also appear at adolescence, but the student will not have to try to deal wit
