Sound Bridge to the Text provides Speech-Language Pathology and Literacy Education services in Chica
08/26/2022
Thank you so much to everyone who came on Wednesday! Your support means the world to me. If you couldn’t make it or had to leave early (or if you WERE there and just want to review the giant layer cake of information) here’s the video:
The Missing Ink 08-24-22 My first webinar! My first chance to put some of my favorite ideas together into one presentation on what I hope will become a powerful set of additions to t...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Missing Ink: Literacy Tools from the Pre-Dyslexia Age (Back-To-School edition). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Missing Ink: Literacy Tools from the Pre-Dyslexia Age (Back-To-School edition). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
08/14/2022
Free Webinar on August 24th, 7:00pm Central Time.
Registration:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrd-qorjsiHtGDiID_wZDjr2cFrGB55aug
Whether you are a parent, educator, or student, this 90-minute class is for you. Dolph Paulsen, MS CCC-SLP, will present numerous techniques that aid students who struggle with reading and writing. Dolph combines current science with educational methods that were left behind prior to the Industrial Revolution, the time before disorders of written language development were ever recognized. These methods include training in classical rhetorical devices, visually supported phonics, and simplified spelling practice. This class will be engaging, informative, and provide practical knowledge that can immediately and easily be implemented at home or in school. Come one, come all.
This class is for parents, educators, and anyone wishing to make reading and writing easier for students of all ages. There will be discussion of the history of literacy education and learning challenges—particularly dyslexia and dysgraphia—as well as instruction in techniques that help students succeed.
Come learn the most powerful tools for accelerating early literacy development!
Fight back against modern society's failure to mitigate the effects of dyslexia and dysgraphia. Give beginning readers and writers access to the kingdom of English literacy. Don't wait for them to become frustrated with the process. These videos lay out the principles and mechanics of Webster's Elementary Spelling method from 1857, adapted for today's world.
Children who grow up wrestling with the complexities of English spelling take much longer to master literacy fundamentals compared to children growing up with languages like Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, etc. because the sounds of the visual symbols of most other languages are more predictable. (For example, in the Japanese elementary syllabary, The Hiragana, if something looks one way, it sounds one way. Not so much in English, Welsh, or Portuguese.)
With the techniques outlined in these videos and in the materials on my website, www.soundbridgetothetext.com, children can learn written English as early as students in other language environments. How? These techniques provide visual cues to tell the student exactly what sounds the letters in new words are making. By coding new vocabulary this way, and by teaching the sounds that go with the symbols, students can read nearly anything independently. They get to access the content of text without the indirect detours and delays of things like alternative spellings that RE-code the words. Once the student knows how to read a word, it becomes much easier to teach them the ins and outs of the spelling rules that govern the text. The "points" (the markings) are removed quickly, but have provided a priceless stepping stone.
The effectiveness of teaching in this way can be seen—to provide one of many examples—in elementary schools in Israel, where written Hebrew is introduced with added markings to indicate specific vowel sounds. As students develop their vocabulary knowledge, the vowel markings are faded out. Mature readers of Hebrew no longer need the "guard rails", and the text becomes streamlined. The result of this (more supported) sequence of learning is much earlier mastery of basic skills, which of course translates into increases in independent learning.
Somehow, in the English-speaking world we lost the tools of pointed spelling in the time of the Industrial Revolution. Before that time it was common to find rural schoolhouses where students ranging in age from 5-18 years old all learned in the same room simultaneously. This was largely possible thanks to methods like Webster's Elementary Spelling Book. In the years leading up to the American Civil War and throughout Reconstruction this was how reading and writing were taught in all American states and territories. Then it was lost. I do not know why.
Dyslexia was only discovered and named by scientists in the late 1870's, and only after pointed spelling methods began disappearing. It is entirely possible that the disappearance of more supportive phonics instruction and the rise of written language difficulties are directly related. All I know for sure is that Pointed Spelling works for dyslexia and dysgraphia, because I myself have used it with students and found it effective where other methods have failed.
Pointed Spelling is an added support for teaching beginning reading and writing. It does not replace existing curriculums; it only supports and accelerates development and increases independence. I urge you to explore these wonderful tools and to bring them into your homes and classrooms as soon as possible.
I will continue to release videos and other materials that will advise you on how to employ these methods across contexts. Please reach out with questions and please share stories of your successes! I look forward to hearing from you. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUhNSEaNK4lpnexqREmi_LGtQK3flzgND
07/02/2022
www.soundbridgetothetext.com/resources New free resources available! Reference sheets, exercises, specialized font... Parents and Educators encouraged to take advantage.
Photos — Sound Bridge to the Text Free Resources(I am adding to this collection all the time)Pointed Spelling reference sheetThis document lists all the symbols for alternative sounds of letters. With this, you can make English transparent, giving it a near 1:1 sound-to-symbol correspondence.Sample Worksheet for Pointed Spelling and...
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