Speech Therapy Therapies To Break The Chains Of Disabilities | Page 5

Can we help teachers help kids
with dyslexia?
• Speech therapy is usually thought to help articulating words but
this is not the case. Speech therapy can be advantageous as it
helps the patient develop their vocabulary in addition to helping
them develop phonological awareness . It is a skill that helps
kids recognise thesound structure in words and identify specific
sounds like syllables. Subsequently, they will improve in reading
comprehension .
• Often in schools, teachers would seek the help of a speech
language pathologist or receive training from them. Helping
children with dyslexia is often an issue, especially since teachers
have limited capacity to help students one on one. This means
that many children are often left to their own devices. In
addition, teachers do not always have the necessary training to
recognise dyslexia or even support them in the classroom .