Infants must learn to process speech sounds

Parents must help their babies learn to process speech sounds. Birth is the time to start helping your child to become "sound-smart." When babies learn to detect the sounds that make up spoken words, they're on their way to becoming phonologically aware. In other words, an early start in being sound-smart sets the stage for every step kids have to take in learning to read.

According to Dr. Gaab from Harvard, "By early kindergarten or preschool, the child must learn phonological processing, which is the ability to manipulate the sounds of language, such as adding or deleting sounds to make words. The child must then learn to read single words and develop the vocabulary necessary to read and understand sentences and paragraphs, and, finally, master the ability to read fluently with reasonable speed.

“She has to decode words, she has to have the vocabulary once she decodes the words, she has to know meaning of the words, and she has to read fluently so that she can comprehend a whole paragraph,” says Gaab. “These all have to come together for successful reading comprehension.”

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