No two children can be the same when it comes to mastering
their studies and other aspects. Every child has his/her own way of thinking,
evaluating and memorizing things. Out of these, some kids have more learning
and attention issues as compared to others. This does not mean that they need
to be left out. This means that they need extra attention and help from an
educational therapist. Even if you provide your child with the best schooling
and education from teachers like those at GAFL, the Best CBSE school in Bangalore, if he is weak, he may need some
extra coaching. And there is absolutely nothing to worry about or be ashamed
of.
If you can’t distinguish between an educational therapist
and a teacher/tutor, you must know that educational therapists are specially
trained to work on certain skills with kids who have learning and attention
issues, which is why they can prove better than tutors. If you are still
unsure, you can read further to know the skills that an educational therapist can
work on with your kids to aid for their betterment.
Pre-reading
skills
Before focusing on the reading skills of your child, there
are certain skills a therapist will work on so that it becomes easier for your
child to read. These pre-reading skills include phonemic awareness, print
awareness and vocabulary. The coaching starts hearing and playing with small
sounds in words (phonemic awareness). He will then be taught to learn how to
follow the words and sentences printed in a book (print awareness). Lastly at
this stage, he will be taught to learn names, meaning of things and different
feelings and ideas that can be connected to real life (vocabulary).
Reading
skills
The reading skills that need to be instilled within your
child primarily require a combination of recognizing letters and their sounds
so that it is easier for them to learn how to sound out words (decoding). Once he
is comfortable with words and their pronunciations, he needs to learn how to
read smoothly with the right inflection (fluency). After being able to read
what is printed, he should also be able to understand what is being said as he
reads and draw conclusions of the statements (comprehension), and then describe
and retell what he read (narration).
Writing
skills
Writing is another skill that becomes difficult to teach to
those children who have problems with concentration. However, an educational
therapist is skilled at instilling writing skills within such kind of children
too. It starts with simple practicing of how to write letters and then
sentences (mechanics). It then goes to the next step of organizing thoughts and
mapping out ideas about what to write (pre-writing). Your child will be taught
to work on different types of writing like narrative, influential and
descriptive (writing). He will also be taught the importance of checking and
revising what he has written (editing).
Math skills
Math is one of the very important subjects that your child
must learn, which is why math skills become another important aspect of
educational therapist coaching. These skills include basics like working with
patterns, number sense and recognition; computation that involves working on
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; and strategical skills like
using formulae and solving problems by reading and using the data given.
Executive functioning
skills
The other basic skills that are taught to your child to help
focus on his attention and learning include those that help one’s brain to
function these include finding ways to improve short and long term information
recall (memory), organizing belonging and thoughts (organization), and learning
to approach problems in various ways (flexible thinking).
Now, you may have understood why an educational therapist is
important to help your child boost up his learning and attention. Make sure you
don’t feel embarrassed about your child and help him out of his problem at the
earliest.
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