Why dEcode® Works Where Other Literacy and Numeracy Programs
Fail
Each student's strengths and weaknesses are unique.
At the Chesnie Cooper Educational Centre, each student's learning path
is custom-tailored to provide the optimal sequence for that student's
needs. To facilitate this, Dr. Cooper has developed thousands of individual
exercises from which she extracts those required to develop a student's
personalized program.
In her more than 25 years of clinical practice with both children and
adults, as an Educational and Developmental Psychologist, Dr. Cooper found
it frustrating that all the methods for teaching reading/decoding –
whether whole-language-based or phonics-based – assumed that all
students could ultimately develop a phonological awareness in reading
without intervention.
A number of her students were severely dyslexic, and no programs were
then able to address their particular needs. Existing programs assumed
such students could retain rules and exceptionalities; they could not.
ABC dEcode® is a pre-phonics program, which firmly
establishes sound/symbol phonemic awareness to the point of becoming automatic
to the student. Once these rules are fully ingrained, and only then, the
dyslexic student is able to learn the exceptions to the rules.
With students of normal intelligence and hearing, we have repeatedly
demonstrated significant reading-decoding improvement, averaging 3 grade
levels in 3 to 5 months.
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