Media Release
Mangaluru, May 2: The Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, KMC Hospital Attavar is introducing a Summer Training Programme for Children with Reading and writing problem.
Reading and writing skills are fundamental academic skills and forms the foundation for allfuture learning. Initially children ‘learn how to read’ before Grade 3 and then they ‘read to learn’ more. Once they become independent reader, they acquire ocean of knowledge byreading. Children without these skills are unlikely to excel in school and later academics. In general, more than 10 to 15 percent of children in a classroom face subtle to severe difficulty in learning to read and write. Somechildren may face a ‘hidden disability’ or ‘invisible disability’ in learning called as ‘learning disability’ or ‘dyslexia’. There often appears to be a gap between what they can achieve and what they are actually achieving. These children may look perfectly 'normal' and seems tobe a verybright andintelligent,yetfailingto read and write.
The introduction of this training programme will benefit children having any of the following risk indicators:
• Delay in learning to talk
• Regular complaints from the class teachers about reading and writing skills
• Spending unusually longtime to complete the tasks related to reading and writing
• Poor academic progression due to severe difficulty in reading, writing, and mathematics
• A valid diagnosis of dyslexia/learning disability by a certified professional
• Difficulty in pronouncing long words and has poor speech clarity
• Reading very slow and is well below the expected level of age
• Severe difficulty in spelling
• Illegible hand writing
• Difficulty in understanding written text
• Poor in describing the incident or narrating a story
• History of family members having problems in speaking, reading, writing, and mathematics.
The training programme will be scheduled from 9:00am to 5:00pm on working days only. Before enrolling in the programme, the specialists will first test the child, and testing will be doneonly by appointment. For more information, please contact Dept of Audiology & Speech language Pathology,KMC Hospital Attavar. Contact No: 8904519049, 9886373606.