Language—Comprehension and Expression
Language—Comprehension and Expression Problems
- Difficulty recalling important facts and details
- Feeling “dumb” or that they can’t keep up
- Avoids reading or says that it is “boring”
- Misunderstands what is heard; misses information while listening.
- Unable to identify the main idea
- Yawns while listening (indicates that listening is taking a lot of energy)
- Doesn’t pick up on new vocabulary including slang used by others
- Unable to read between the lines (inferencing)
- Weak understanding
- Reliance on impossibly trying to remember everything (often word-for-word)
- Appears distracted or inattentive
- Difficulty listening with background noise (fan, TV, students in a classroom)
- Doesn’t get concepts easily
- Inconsistent ability to follow multi-step directions and instructions
- Says “huh?” often
- Unable to pick out the most important (salient) information
- Poor understanding of what is heard or read
- Difficulty with understanding math and word problems
- Difficulty predicting possible solutions or outcomes (cause and effect)
- Difficulty expressing thoughts (missing details, or is out of sequence)
- Weak auditory processing (incorrectly receiving auditory signals to the brain)
- Poor test-taking even though he seemed to know the material
- Unable to create strong mental images
- Cannot follow along with fast-speaking peers
What Our Language-Comprehesion and Expression Program Does
Our structured process helps children, adolescents, and adults, to develop critical foundations for comprehending what they hear and read. Good comprehension of what we hear and read depends upon receiving a clear, accurate, and complete message to think with. This program is completed one-to-one so that students are guided at the exact level needed, and they are immediately corrected, so that they cannot practice new skills incorrectly.
Significant improvements in reading, understanding, verbal expression, and organization, result from our Comprehension and Meaning program.
The comprehension building blocks are foundational in helping students in the following ways:
- Increasing understanding of listening and reading
- Hearing the flow and phrasing of language while reading and listening
- Developing verbal inner language (“hearing” it in his mind) to improve auditory memory
- Visualizing as the language comes in, in order to improve visual processing and comprehension
- Showing understanding of the gestalt, or whole idea, and how the details relate to each other
- Identifying critical story details and elements (helps with predicting and comprehending)
- Analyzing and answering vocabulary and questions (using higher-levels of reasoning, problem solving, and analytical skills)
We expect to see progress each and every class that a student is with us. We closely monitor this progress and the progress that the student and parents are noticing at home, school, and work. Our systematic teaching and practice directly correlate to academic expectations.
The end results after completing the Comprehension and Meaning program include: less confusion, significant improvements in listening and reading, learning is easier, verbal expression is more organized, and confidence skyrockets!
