Reading
Children may need help with strengthening their phonological awareness skills, which are the skills essential to developing later reading skills.
These can include rhyming (e.g. knowing that cat rhymes with mat), sound blending (p-a-t makes pat) and syllable blending (as-tro-naut makes astronaut), as well as sound segmentation (the word cup is made up of the sounds c-u-p) and syllable segmentation (the word crocodile is made up of the syllables cro-co-dile).
These are just some examples of phonological awareness skills. Children may have difficulty identifying letters (phonics) or sounding out words correctly. Some children have a slow reading rate. A speech-language therapist can help children with these kinds of difficulties, as well as other areas of their reading development.