Author: Matthew Lynch
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Should Good Readers Be Taught Reading Strategies?
Teachers focus on teaching reading and comprehension strategies thinking that those will help students in reading better. However, several literacy experts claim that these strategies do ... -
What are Suprasegmentals?
These are also known as prosody and can function linguistically to alter the meaning of a word or a phrase. They can also function as a ... -
Inferential Thinking To Make Conclusions
Inference, in general, refers to any evaluation or conclusion. Inferential thinking is when you make sense of anything happening around you. We, humans, infer every day, ... -
What are Vowels and Diphthongs?
Vowels are letters of the alphabet that produce one single sound. There are five of them – [a], [e], [i], [o], [u]. Diphthongs typically produce two ... -
What are Diacritics?
These are marks or symbols that can totally adjust the meaning of a consonant or vowel. It may be used to show an accent or the ... -
What is Childhood Dysarthria?
This is a motor speech disorder triggered by paralysis, lack of muscular coordination, or neuromuscular weakness of the muscles necessary for speech production. This could result ... -
Interpreting What Teachers Say About Your Child
Have the comments that a teacher makes about your child at a parent-teacher conference ever seemed like more than what was being said? Have the concerns ... -
What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)?
This condition is another motor speech disorder that causes difficulty in speaking in children. Particularly, here, there are problems with planning the movements for speech sound. ... -
Getting Involved: How To Build a Good Relationship With Your Child’s Teacher
All parents want their children to be productive and happy when they are at both home and school. At school, this is only possible when you ... -
What is Phonological Impairment?
Phonological deficit/impairment is one of the very common causes of speech sound disorder, which makes an individual (typically kids) experience language difficulties that are very evident ...
