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Why dEcode Works!
In my 25 years of clinical practice with both children and adults, as an Educational and Developmental Psychologist, I found it frustrating that all the methods for teaching reading/decoding – whether that program be whole language based or phonics based – assumed that all students could ultimately develop a phonological awareness in reading without intervention.
A number of my students were severely dyslexic, and these programs were not able to address their particular needs.
These existing programs assumed the students could retain rules and exceptionalities, which 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 improvement averaging 3 grade levels in 3 to 5 months.
This is abc dEcode™.
Each student's strengths and weaknesses are unique. Within my clinic, each student's learning path is custom-tailored to present the optimal sequence for that student's needs. To facilitate this, I have developed thousands of individual pages of exercises from which I extract those required to develop that student's personalized program.
Until recently, abc dEcode™ has been available only within my clinic. This limited the number of students we could help to those within a restricted geographic area, and as our programming is custom-tailored to meet each individual's needs, working one-on-one restricts the number of students to available times.
Now, abc dEcode™ has been electronically formatted and is available on CD-ROM. abc dEcode™ guides the student through the various decision points to establish each individual custom-tailored program. Students around the world may now benefit, and at far less cost than the travel and expense of getting to
our clinic.
This is not a game. This is dEcode™. |
