Great Visual
Learner
As a visual learner, Children tend
to use the right side of their brain for reading rather than the left side. In
doing so, words are remembered as pictures. Children who are visual learners
tend to have weaker auditory processing skills along with weaker auditory
memory. For these children, remembering how letters and sounds fit together to
make up a word can be challenging. It is
important for visual learners to see the whole word as a picture first, and
then it is easier to remember how those letters and sounds fit together to make
up that whole word/picture. As a result of these struggles, many children who
are visual learners can fall behind in a classroom that uses predominantly
phonetic decoding methods for teaching reading.
Flashcards are often misused by the
even the most well-intended user. They are meant to be flashed, not held for an
indefinite period of time! Fortunately, flash cards utilize all three learning
modalities: visual, auditory and tactile. Flash
cards should be bright and engaging in order to make a real impact particularly
for the visual learner. To begin teaching reading, each card should contain a
word that represents something that the learner can visualize. (It is much
easier for a child to visualize a 'ball' than to visualize and remember the
word 'that'). Auditory reinforcement by the instructor is imperative so that
the child hears very clearly how the word should sound.
How to use
Flashcards?
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Present
flash cards consistently - create a daily routine
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Print
letters in lower case except for a proper noun
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Use
a very basic font for printing
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Use
large flashcards
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Use
illustrations to demonstrate content when needed
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Choose
applicable vocabulary that your child will be interested in
The collection of Flash cards is
listed as below. It is 250 pages PDF file with approximately 500+ flashcards.
Actions, Adjectives, Animals, Autumn,
Baby, Bathroom, Bedroom, Birds, Birthday, Body Parts, Buildings, Christmas,
Clothes, Colors, Daily Routines, Days Of The Week, Drinks, Easter, Emotions ,Fantasy, Family, Feelings,
Fish, Food, Food Quantities, Fruits, Furniture, Gadgets, Gestures Gender, Hair, Halloween, Health, Hobbies,
Home Appliances, House, Household, Illnesses, Insects, Instruments Months Of
The Year, Nouns, Nature, Occupations, Parts
Of The Day, Prepositions, School Building, School Objects, Shapes, Snacks And
Desserts, Sports, Spring, Stages Of Life, Summer, The Five Senses, The Four
Seasons, Tools, Toys, Transportation, Travel, Vegetables, Weather and weather
I hope this will help the kids with
autism the visual learners to understand the different concepts.
Thanks
and Regards,
Selva…
Flash card courtesy : www.kids-pages.com
