How Can You Teach Children With Learning Disabilities to Spell?
Any parent will tell you that most children with learning disabilities have trouble spelling. They may have trouble with the sounds and phonics, they most often have trouble with the visualization and recall of spelling words, and this can impact their learning ability on almost every level! Have you ever sat reading with your child and found a word they did not know? Most often we pause and show them the word, maybe even teach them the spelling, and so we move on to the next page. How frustrating is it to encounter the same word on the next page, only to find that they cannot recall the very word you showed them only minute before? Then when the same word appears two pages later, they cannot remember the word once again. Believe me, if this frustrates you as a parent, how much more frustrating will this be for your child with their learning disabilities! As a Behavioral Optometrist who has worked in the area of children and learning disabilities for over 20 years, I know that there ar
