The Importance of Phono-Graphix Reading Program

Phono-graphix reading program is an integral part of the whole learning process followed by child tutoring services especially for students having learning disabilities.

Phono-graphix reading program is a popular method which is beneficial for those children who have specific learning difficulties or dyslexia. Child tutoring services have implemented phono-graphix program to ensure that students having learning difficulties can overcome their problems. The process involves the development of phonological processing skills to improve reading and spelling abilities in children.

Phono-graphix reading program helped students to improve their phonological processing skills. The finding of the phono-graphix program were positive as it showed majority of the students have had an average gain in their reading and spelling in a very short span of time. Quantitative findings from the phono-graphix reading program also showed overall positive perceptions among teachers and parents and that is why it is considered as an integral part of the child tutoring services.

Skills training based on phono-graphix reading program includes three different levels of learning instruction like the basic code, advanced code and multi-syllable management. The basic code level teaches students about the letters and their corresponding sounds. Here the students learn all about segmenting, phoneme and blending manipulation. These are introduced through simple three letter words and their adjacent consonants. In the advanced code level, the students are taught about one-to-two mapping. Here students also get to know about the overlap in the code. This means that some of the components of the code can be represented by more than one sound. In the multi-syllable management level, students get to learn about the multi-syllable words from two to five syllables. Here students are taught about the blend sounds into syllables and then syllables into words.

The overall objective of the study is to analyze the effectiveness of the phono-graphix reading program on students who are suffering from Dyslexia. This is also a remediation strategy that is implemented by child tutoring services to enable students with learning disability to overcome their learning or reading problems.

The objectives of the phono-graphix reading program are:

• It is used to determine whether there can be any improvement in dyslexic students who lack phonological processing skills. This can be taken care of with the help of this teaching method.

• It is also used to explore whether there would be any improvement in the phonological processing skills impacting on spelling ability or reading ability.

• It can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the reading program on students by taking into account the views of other adults who are associated with the students.

This reading program has been extremely effective in treating students with learning problems and has helped them to be at par with other normal students. The effectiveness and popularity of the program are the reasons why it is so much in demand from the child tutoring services, especially parents. With the help of this reading program, students who are facing learning problems can achieve better test results.