Sound Analysis

Demo — Click Here then click on Sound Analysis (the headphone icon) for  a demo of the first 5 levels of phonemic awareness training.

In addition to Sound Analysis the Demo link has access to nine other exercises (introductory levels only). The complete set of ten exercises with all of their levels and degrees of difficulty make up a comprehensive package to build core learning skills and maximize attention, memory, processing speeds, logic and reasoning in as little as twelve weeks.

Learning to read begins when a child first hears spoken words. The sounds of our language form early patterns children use to speak and eventually, to read. For children to learn to read successfully, they must start with a strong foundation of sound awareness and build on it by incorporating more difficult, abstract skills.

You can compare the process of learning to read to building a house. A well-built structure requires a strong foundation or the underlying weakness willcause problems over time. The same is true in “building” a better reader.

Sound Analysis can help build the underlying skills every child needs to read well and with great comprehension.

Sound Analysis has 41 levels, each with varying degrees of difficulty. The levels of advancement are designed to continue challenging the student without leaving them at either extreme of ongoing boredom or frustration.

Sound Analysis develops the major auditory processing skills of analysis, discrimination and segmenting. The minor skills developed include sustain attention, selective attention, divided attention, working memory, long term memory, processing speed, and comprehension. The exercise introduces 17 key letter sounds. Students will select the required answer based upon their ability to analyze and segment sounds that make up words.

Without the right foundational skills, learning to read can be very difficult. For some children reading comes easily because underlying skills develop properly, but for the children with weak skills, reading difficulties become evident as early as grades 1-3 and can remain for life.

Phonemic awareness and auditory processing skills are the underlying cognitive abilities to hear and remember the smallest individual units of sound in a word. Without this ability, fluent reading will be nearly impossible. Reading is a sound-to-code system that requires strong phonemic awareness, visual processing, and memory skills to master.

Click to hear the 17 core sounds that are trained in Sound Analysis.

Foundational skills are critical for a child’s reading development. Those skills develop with intensive one-on-one phonemic awareness training. That is where Sound Analysis comes in. Proper training can quickly correct and strengthen weak underlying skills necessary for a lifetime of fluent, easy reading.