Quoted: Speech and language pathologist Meghan M. Davidson M.S. CCC-SLP from UW Madison says, “If I just gave you a symbol system that I make up, you have no idea what this says. But now, and this is the key piece of reading, if I give you the sounds and the language and we sound it out together, you?re going to be able to figure it out. So we can say ca-a-t, cat. Or we can say cat rhymes with bat. Like those types of things require this sort of extra level of processing and they just don?t know what to do with those sounds. That?s just when it falls apart.”
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