Dr. Donna Geffner
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first heard Feb 2020
last heard Feb 2020
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They need repetition.
And many of these youngsters also have reading problems because they can't hear the phonemes.
They don't hear the differences in an E and an R of a vowel, so they have difficulty with phonemic communication.
awareness skills and decoding and those are the early building blocks of reading and reading in the early years is very very auditory and the child can't make fine discrimination judgments among phonemes or hear differences among a sound or put sounds together to form a word he or she will struggle to learn to read with accuracy
Sure.
Well, that's a good question, Jenny.
For one thing, many of these youngsters mishear, that they may hear one word and they say it another way, that that's what they heard.
So we get mishearings.
And parents are very much aware, they'll tell me, yes, my child mishears, go to the car, go to the can, something similar.
And that translates to their own speech.
They may not monitor their own speech.
They may speak more loudly or softly.
Or they mispronounce words because that's how they hear it.
You know, a youngster doesn't know what he's supposed to hear.
All he knows is what he does hear.
And so many times when I have a youngster in my office and I'm testing him or her and I ask her to repeat a series of words, I can say hen and the child can say then.
I can say bird and he can say bird.
I can say not and he can hear not.
without the final sound.
So there are incidences that we see where they break up the words.
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