Teaching 6-11 year olds

Between 6 and 11 years of age, during the primary school period:

·         The child shows difficulty in correlating a sound with a certain letter, and in deciphering the learned words.

·         Confounds the right and the left side, and some of them write reversely.

·         Reverses letters, numbers, words.

·         He mixes up the order of the letters in a word that he is writing, and the same can happen when he wants to represent numbers.

·         Still pronounces the words wrongly, inverting, substituting or adding syllables.

·         His reading comprehension is deficient, but he can recount a movie plot, a text or a TV show that he has heard.

·         His clumsiness of movement becomes more prominent, and children that tend to get into trouble are more prone to accidents than the other children.

·         Usually works at a slow pace and doesn’t manage to finish the tasks that the teacher assigns in the classroom, and it is difficult to have him do his homework.

·         His fine skills deficit makes his writing disorderly, uncalligraphic and sometimes impossible to read.

·         It is difficult for him to plan his actions and thoughts, therefore his compositions can look very mixed up, without any particular main idea of the story.

·         Displays a deficit of auditive and visual sequencing, as well as of working memory, which means that he needs more time to process the information that he receives; not only does this have an effect on language, but it also triggers important consequences concerning the study of mathematics; it affects his reasoning and the development of strategies to learn algorithms and solve problems.