It is the only reading program that starts at the very beginning – with the auditory coding of single sounds.

At its heart, our modern phonetic alphabet is just that – phonetic. The essence of phonetics is auditory, based on sound. In its simplest form, a letter is a simple visual shape coded to a single auditory sound. Your child must master that system of coding as a fluent skill before he or she can move past it to understand the meaning of the words coded in letters, and cope with the inconsistent rules of English spelling.

Clicking the mouse puts your child in charge of learning speed. He or she can listen quickly or slowly to the pristine voice of three-year-old Joshie, while repeating the sounds out loud. Your child looks, clicks, listens and speaks – training eye, ear, voice and memory to attach one auditory sound to one visual shape, and reinforcing that message with fine motor motions of eye and hand.

It sounds simple, and it is – and it is also a highly rewarding learning experience for your child. Children love mimicry, and repetition. All parents know that children will repeat the same game over and over long after the parent is sick of playing. And your child will feel the empowerment of “I can do it myself!” This program brings out the natural tendency of children to find pleasure in imitation and repetition. The dEcode® exercises turn that repetition into learning. Your child willingly repeats the exercise over and over until the visual/auditory attachment has been perfected.

The workbooks that accompany the two CD set of dEcode® For Kids reinforce the auditory learning with visual games and exercises that teach your child to print. By the end of Level 2, your child is reading!

Many children will need no further introduction to reading than the two levels of dEcode® For Kids. With that solid foundation in decoding, they suddenly burst out into full-fledged reading, acquiring phonetics, sight words and comprehension quickly and naturally.

Some kids will require further support, though, with detailed teaching of these stages. Here the full dEcode® learning system is standing by ready to help. Developed over thirty years of clinical practice with dyslexic kids and adults, the full dEcode® learning system provides thousands of in-depth exercises to overcome specific problems. Your child probably does not need that kind of help – but if he or she does, the dEcode® For Kids system will help let you know.