Help a Child with a Speech or Language Delay
Children with speech and language delays often have difficulty with literacy skills. This is where Reading Bees can help.
Children who have difficulty pronouncing or understanding certain speech sounds may also have difficulty reading and writing those sounds. This can lead to trouble decoding and sounding out words.
Children with language delays may not fully understand all aspects of language, such as grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. This can lead to problems understanding text or logically expressing one’s ideas in writing.
Before children are ready to read, write, and spell, they develop phonological awareness skills. These skills help them understand how words are made up of sounds and that sounds are represented by letters. These skills are essential for reading and are often impaired in children with speech disorders, especially phonological disorders.
At Reading Bees, we help your child develop phonological awareness skills by incorporating the following elements into multisensory activities.
- Rhyming
- Alliteration (same beginning sounds)
- Letter-sound correspondences
- Manipulating sounds in words
- Identifying sounds at the beginning, middle and end of words.
Children start reading real stories once they know the first 8 ‘sounds’. We introduce these sounds and letters in an order that makes it easy for children to learn. The emphasis is on ‘decoding’ (sounding out) and a few ‘heart words’ (high-frequency words children need to know ‘by heart’ as they cannot decode them at this stage).
We pride ourselves on creating an ideal learning environment for every PreKinder, Kinder and Primary student. This includes keeping class sizes small, so every student gets the attention they need.
In classes of more than five children, we always have an educator and assistant in the room, so every child receives the same level of care, guidance, and support they deserve — in every class.
Every educator must be qualified in teaching or speech pathology and have a First Aid Certification. And our assistant educators, who are the trusted extra pair of hands, play an important role in supporting children in class. All our team members hold a current Working With Children Check.
It’s one of the reasons our environment feels calm, safe, and consistent for little learners 💛
