Want to teach your child to read?
Easily teach the most important reading and spelling skills with fun, effective, scientifically based computer games.
"ReadingDoctorâ Software is based on years of research into the reading process and thousands of hours of clinical experience in teaching children how to read".
The method of teaching used in ReadingDoctorâ Software is based on scientific research and thousands of hours of clinical experience working one-on-one with children to improve their literacy skills.
Fun.
Effective.
Scientifically Based.
Research indicates that the most important factor determining whether a child will become a successful reader is their ability to understand that written language is a visual code which represents the way we say words. There are a number of crucial skills which children must develop in order to crack this code in written language. ReadingDoctorâ ReadingSoundsä 1 Pro is designed to teach those skills using our unique, patent pending teaching system. The program strengthens the following important skills which children must develop in order to become confident readers:
Reading Doctor Software
Teaching your child to read is easy with our revolutionary, patent pending, computer based teaching approach. Our programs are ideal for children learning to read and write as well as for children with reading and spelling difficulties.
ReadingDoctorâ Software is designed by a Speech-Language Pathologist and reading researcher specialising in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children with reading and writing difficulties.
Letter-sound knowledge
Knowledge of the letters or groups of letters which represent the individual sounds in language
Phonemic awareness
Awareness of the individual sounds in words
Phonological awareness
Awareness of the sound structure of language
Blending
The ability to join sounds together to make words
Segmentation
The ability to break words up into separate sounds
Sight word recognition
The ability to recognise the most common words in written language
Auditory discrimination
The ability to tell the difference between similar sounds or words
Visual discrimination
The ability to tell the difference between visually similar letters or words
Word knowledge
Vocabulary
Articulatory awareness
Awareness of how sounds are made by the mouth and articulators
The software uses highly engaging, enjoyable computer games as a teaching tool, so children feel they are playing games, not learning! Our unique teaching system identifies student strengths and weaknesses, eliminates already established skill areas from the game and provides multisensory learning support to help the student strengthen weaker skills.
Fun, arcade style games
Unique, multisensory, patent pending teaching system
Assess and monitor student progress
Key features:
- Research based
- Almost effortless teaching of crucial literacy skills
- Made by a specialist Speech-Language Pathologist
- Unique, patented, multisensory teaching system
- Teaches children to decode and encode words using letter-sound knowledge
- Teaches instant recognition of the 200 most common sight words
- Self adjusting learning support adapts to student needs
- Huge library of learning targets for activities
- Large library of preset games
- All games are fully customisable
- Testing facility allows for easy progress monitoring
- Flashcard printing feature
- Easy to use
- Includes advanced features for specialists
ReadingSoundsä 1 Pro
Designed to be used by:
- Parents
- Classroom teachers
- Special education teachers
- School support staff (such as School Services Officers)
- Speech-language pathologists
- Educational consultants
- English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers
- Tutors
- Homeschoolers
©2008 LearningScience® Pty Ltd. LearningScience® and ReadingDoctor® are registered trademarks of LearningScience® Pty Ltd. ReadingSounds™ and Rapid Learning Matrix™ are trademarks of LearningScience® Pty Ltd. This software is protected by a pending international patent.
Full customisation of games
Print customisable flashcards
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