Can We Offer First Grade Reading Help For a Child With Learning Disabilities?

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First grade reading help is not easily available in a lot of places around the globe for a child with learning disabilities. In the minds of many, a child with learning disabilities is very often not even detectable before grade two, when they begin to exhibit behavior problems or fall behind their peers in reading, writing and spelling.

Nevertheless, all practitioners agree that if we can identify the problems early enough, first grade reading help could make a enormous difference in the future education of a child with learning disabilities. Why then do we wait to offer the first grade reading help that many of these kids so desperately need, preferring a “wait and see” attitude over a preventative strike against a condition which can be so harmful and so devastating in the life of the child.

The difficulty perhaps lies in the early recognition of a child with learning disabilities. Rather than a definitive test, we find that we have a series of general, and often highly contentious tests, and we need to push back a definitive diagnosis until we have absolute proof of a learning issue based on the truth that the child is under performing when compared to their classmates. If detected early enough, first grade reading help may kick start the development process, and this could be exactly what the child with learning disabilities requires to move ahead in their studies.

Teachers undoubtedly are in the front line of this recognition, and they may hold the key to providing first grade reading help that influences an entire generation. As an Optometrist who has worked with numerous a child with learning disabilities, I believe that, principally in the early stages of development such as in the first grade, reading help can be offered in functional and simple ways that a child of this age group can comprehend.

Yet providing first grade reading help for children is not the real issue. There are things that can be done for children who are struggling. Detecting exactly which child needs the help is the key function facing teachers and educators, before they become just another child with learning disabilities in subsequent grades, struggling to read, write and spell. It appears that for children in the first grade, reading help is not so much unavailable but beside the point until the presenting difficulties become great enough to be apparent and clearly unmistakable to all.

Vision therapy could be a potential form of first grade reading help which is cheap, efficient and can be applied to most children in the grade with no fear of adverse effects. The principle is simple: a child with learning disabilities nearly always shows decreased visual skills, such as eye movements, focus, directional concepts, visual memory, coding, sequencing and the like.

This lack in visual skills can be significantly improved using simple, simple to realize ideas that you can do in your own home, without trips to the Optometrist. All you require is access to the right program, and the discipline to employ it. For more information about these programs visit our website.

I firmly imagine that the right vision therapy can have a great big bearing on how your child develops all through school, and that first grade reading help in the form of vision therapy should be made available to every suspected child with learning disabilities, whether the problems are being manifested in the first grade or not. You have zero to lose, so much to potentially gain and the techniques are fun and helpful even if a child appears to be doing satisfactory in class. Do not make the mistake of waiting too long before you provide first grade reading help for your child.

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Source by Darin Browne