The Reading Foundation

	Basic Reading & Spelling Difficulties
	Comprehension Difficulties
	Math Difficulties
	Writing Difficulties

Checklist for Comprehension Difficulties:

Difficulty understanding what is read

Difficulty understanding oral instructions and/or directions

Trouble "listening" - may be seen as inattentive

Distractible

Difficulty with oral language - discussing experiences, telling a story (story may be out of sequence, missing important details)

Similar difficulties with written language - student may also lack ideas

Difficulty understanding math or word problems

Describes reading as "boring" and rarely picks up a book to read it

Poor "sense of direction"

Difficulty getting the point of a joke

Has been labeled as having “attention deficit disorder" (with or without hyperactivity)

If your child exhibits four or more of the above, then it is likely your child has difficulty with visualizing information and would benefit from our program that deals with this issue.

Contact Dr. Truch
1-800-605-9272 (toll free in North America)
steve@readingfoundation.com

The heart of reading is understanding and enjoying what you read. There are learners who can read and spell fluently but who have difficulty understanding what they have read or what is read to them. These learners are unable to spontaneously produce "mental images" to represent the words. Therefore, they must attempt to store the words in memory. However, as the length and vocabulary complexity of a written passage increases, the storage and organized retrieval of the information becomes an increasingly difficult task. Again, the result is frustration and avoidance of reading. Feelings of low self-esteem quickly develop because the learner believes that he is "dumb" and/or that reading is "boring". The same difficulty with visualizing information often interferes with the understanding of math concepts and with the organization of thinking for the purposes of writing. Again, leading education research shows that visualizing is fundamental to comprehension. Students at The Reading Foundation are taught how to do this even for complex and abstract information.