Jayme Hurd-Visual Phonics

Benefits of Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Students using visual phonics:
Many times interpreters and teachers are met
with the challenge of working with Deaf and
Hard of Hearing student's material that
depends on hearing the phonetics of the
words. For a student who is unable to hear the
sounds, it can be quite a challenge to learn
reading skills such as rhyming words and
phonemic awareness that is required in
educational curriculum. Visual Phonics
teaches students to recognize the phonemic
patterns in words and strengthen reading
literacy. (Montgomery, 2008, p178)
Not only can student see the visual representation
of sounds, learn how words are structured phonetically,
but they can also learn to recognize patterns and the
muscle memory associated with the sounds of letters
and blends.
(Montgomery, 2008, p178-179)
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