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What is Phonographix?
Phonograpix is a revolutionary way of teaching reading. Especially for children with Dyslexia, Phongraphix makes sense of the complicated English language.
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What is Phono-Graphix?
Phono-Graphix is quite simply, in my opinion, the best method of teaching reading that has been developed to date. Developed by Geoffrey and Carmen McGuiness of Read America, Phono-Graphix is a revolutionary way of teaching the English sound system to readers.
There was a clinical study of Phono-Graphix published in the Orton Annals of Dyslexia in 1996. This study included 87 children age six to sixteen, 44% of whom were previously diagnosed as learning disabled. In a twelve hour remedial course, 98% of the children reached grade level reading. The remaining 2% needed additional time in therapy.
My own experience would concur with these findings, although I have not carried out any formal research.
What we know about learning to read
Our English language could be considered illogical, frustrating, even irritating. Personally I like to think of it as endlessly fascinating, challenging and diverse! Sadly for our children, especially those with dyslexia, it IS illogical, frustrating and annoying. The very aspects of our language, that make it so diverse and fascinating for those who manage to learn it easily, are what causes dyslexic children the problems. To start with there are 44 sounds in our language and only 26 letters with which to describe those sounds, so we start having to put two letters together in order to show a sound for example 'sh', 'ch'. Then there's the fact that there are no rules that you can happily abide by: 'i before e except after c, or in weigh, neighbour' etc, etc. And what about all those words with spellings such as 'cough' ' though' 'enough'?
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