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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm the reading tutor/teacher who frequently posts about ABCDarian.   I have had very good results with gifted children who are having difficulty decoding.   (Usually they stink at spelling and they are losing confidence in reading because they know something just isn't making sense.)  These kids often can move very quickly through the program and you do not need to do any expensive testing or get the school to do the remediation.

In my opinion, it is dirt cheap compared with many programs geared for kids with dyslexia.   Any thinking parent should be able to buy the teacher guides and do this remediation at home; it is very common sense and understandable in my opinion.   If you do it at home you can move SO MUCH FASTER than you can if you hire an expensive specialized tutor  unless you enter your child in one of those all month programs that cost thousands of dollars.

So many times, gifted kids who had lagging skills in phonemic manipulation in preK and K managed to learn to read by memorizing sight words and word parts.   But they didn't learn to decode efficiently and they start to struggle at about the 3rd grade reading level.   Most of them have caught up in phonemic manipulation ability by grade 3, but teachers are no longer teaching decoding at this point.     Sometimes it is a VERY simple process to go back to basics -- you just have to get over their resistance to doing the easy, baby words...and you need to use nonsense words for them to decode instead of real words, because they have memorized the real words by sight.

www.abcdrp.com

This program is made up of workbooks, but it is not a bunch of worksheets.  You sit with your child constantly and provide direct immediate feedback as she does the program.   The workbooks guides you in what to do, and the teacher's manual will explain the correct type of feedback to make.  It is the best resource I have ever used and if you follow it it has a high chance of success.

Personally I have only once found a child with severe learning disabilities who did not learn to read with this program.   This child had Rapid Automatic Naming Deficit that was very severe.  It took him so long to remember that the letter "m" said /m/   and then that the letter "a" said /a/ and that the letter "t" said /t/ that he was unable to remember the first sound in order to blend all three sounds together to say /mat/.   This child simply didn't make any progress with blending with me.   My other students who were diagnosed with even severe phonological processing disorder made great progress, even having their disorder "undiagnosed". Some of them took a lot longer at the first level than others, but once they mastered level A they moved quickly through the program.   I just want to share this option with you and others because I feel it is so beneficial, and very thrifty compared with other options.[/quote]

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