[senco-forum] Phonemic Awareness

I don’t disagree with any of that :)
Mary

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From: Lindsaybrewis at aol.com [mailto:Lindsaybrewis at aol.com] 
Sent: 05 January 2007 15:49
To: mary.kelly4 at ntlworld.com; senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Phonemic Awareness

when thinking of letter sounds please think about children who cannot
reproduce them some dispraxic children have real diffiuclty isolating these
sounds with or without letter shapes and children with cereral palsy may not
have the luxury of testing out the awareness of sounds because of limited
muscle control
 
so  for some children whole word or  phrase recognition can be their best
access to any pretence at reading!!  for these children Makaton have some
excellent resources to use symbols to support reading and Scope has a
reading pack for the most delayed readers without access to spoken voice