[senco-forum] a defintion of synthetic phonics

It would appeaar to me that synthetic phoics works on
phomenic awareness (recognising individual sounds)
then building them up into words and analytical
phonics starts with phonological processing, whole
words or clusters of sounds first, then splitting them
up.

I suppose the effectiveness of either method would
depend on where a child's APD  deficits lie, in
phonemic awareness (recognising the sounds)or
phonological processing (what you do with the sounds),
as whichever approach you take first will work better
if the child is not as affected in that area. Some
children however are affected in both. Some children
with APD also have great difficulty with nonsense
words which people tend to use a lot in teaching
phonics... they have nothing concrete to link them to.

It would appear then that both types of phonics have
weakness in relation to the teaching of literacy to
those with APD, for different reasons.

Best wishes,
Aly

Chair Auditory Processing Disorder in the UK/APDUK
www.lacewingmultimedia.com/APD.htm 
www.apduk.org

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