Child 1st offers the best learning disability resources on the market. Our product designers look at children first to discover how they learn most naturally. We integrate explicit phonics instruction with specific strategies (visuals, movement, storytelling, humor, rhyme, and patterns) to engage children with an array of learning strengths. Our products are also specifically designed to help visual learners, and other right brain learners, those labelled with dyslexia, autism, Asperger's, ADD, and those who struggle with reading comprehension. CFP's products are also highly effective in teaching beginning readers, building a strong foundation for learning from the very start.
Among our many resources, we have tools to help children with difficulty learning numbers, sight words, and so forth. Does your child have difficulty relating number names to their symbols? Child1st offers stylized number sets and a song about the stylized numbers which make it easy for even toddlers to learn their numbers. Our image for number 8 is the snowman. The child can learn that 8 is the snowman who ate a carrot. At first, in order to recall the name of that symbol, the child might call the number "snowman." At this point, a concerned parent will understandably worry that her child might not ever call 8 "eight." But be patient. It won't be very long at all before the visual fades and your child will just see an 8 and will say "eight." Using the visuals just makes learning easy and fun.
How about digraphs? It is not easy for a young child to remember which digraph makes which sound. They all look very similar. We have stylized the digraphs to help your child quickly learn and remember. See SH for instance: Any child will be able to recall a time they heard a baby crying and maybe even hear a mother saying "Shhhh." Making the S in the digraph into the crying baby and the tall H into the mother who is saying "sh" makes it very easy for your child to learn and recall. The obvious hand motion to go along with this digraph is the one the mother is making. This visual/kinaesthetic tool is simple and powerful.
These are just a few of our many learning disability resources offered by Child 1st. We believe that every child can learn and we have the resources to make it happen. We believe brains are made to learn, they love to learn, and in many cases they will learn when conditions are right. No matters how far behind children are, once the gaps in their understanding are bridged, they will progress rapidly.
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