Marina Vorster Speech Therapy

18/11/2023

Audiobooks are books, and listening to audiobooks counts as a form of reading! 📖

Yes it is a different reading experience than reading paper books but there are many benefits to audiobooks.

🎧 Audiobooks make books accessible to individuals who are blind or visually impaired, have dyslexia or other learning disabilities.

🎧 Audiobooks allow more individuals to independently access texts as they might not otherwise be able to read, and keep up with their peers when it comes to both academic and pleasure reading.

🎧 Audiobooks can expose individuals to content, genres, vocabulary and sentence structure that is more advanced than an individual’s independent reading level of written text.

🎧 Audiobooks provide an excellent model of reading fluency - accuracy, rate and expression while reading.

🎧 Audiobooks can support decoding skills and pronunciation of new words if the individual is able to pair listening and visually following along with the same text.

🎧 Audiobooks can support story comprehension by reducing cognitive load.

🎧 Audiobooks help bridge the gap for reluctant readers and get them interested in reading by listening to engaging audiobooks.

Encourage your kids to explore multiple forms of reading: paper books, ebooks, audiobooks, and pairing an audiobook with a physical book 📕 🎧

15/08/2023

Some tips from to encourage language and speech 🗣️👧🏽

13/02/2023

These amazing language strategies were shared by and 🙌🏼

These strategies are used to support prelinguistic skills.

07/02/2023

And we really expect our kids to get it right away?

English rules:
Their our know rules!

But there are explanations 😁

30/01/2023

The PhonoGraphix reading and spelling program is a straightforward method that takes the sounds of a language and teaches the letters and letter combinations that represents those sounds in careful stages.

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Contact me for more info @ admin@marinaspeech.co.za

27/11/2022

23/11/2022

Why I don’t teach this ‘rule’ 🤔
(When you add the fairy ‘e’ it makes the vowel say its name e.g. plan - plane)

Was the fairy asleep or did she run out of magic when it came to words such as… some, have, move, done, are?

Letters are pictures of sounds and can represent more than one sound!

[o-e] picture represents more than one sound:
‘o-e’ as in bone
‘u’ as in love
‘oo’ as in move

This is the concept I teach kids 😁

15/11/2022

The 3 skills needed for reading and writing:
1. Segmenting: The ability to separate the sounds in words.

2. Blending: The ability to blend or combine sounds into meaningful words.

3. Phoneme manipulation: The ability to pull sounds in and out of words.

These skills are taught in the context of real words and learners should be provided with strategies to practice and use these skills independently and in varying contexts. The code (written language) and the skills are taught together and reading and spelling are taught at the same because the two processes are reversible.

13/11/2022

Super excited do be apart of this multidisciplinary team.
P - Play therapy & Educational Psychology
O - Occupational therapy
D - Dietetics
S - Speech therapy

Check out our website!!
www.therapypods.co.za

12/09/2022

Same diagnosis, different presentation 🧩♥️

29/04/2022

07/03/2022

Speech development chart

Children develop speech sounds at different ages. This chart will help you to identify whether your child’s speech sound errors are age-appropriate or not.

(Chart developed according Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation)

01/03/2022

Marina Vorster Speech Therapy' practice is based in Pinelands, Cape Town. She is also available in Somerset West for home visits and school visits.

Not based in Pinelands or Somerset West? Not a problem! Teletherapy is always an option!

25/01/2022