What Are Basic Reading Skills?

Reading is not one skill, but a large number of interrelated skills, which developed over a period of many years. Basic reading skills include:

• Language;

• Concentration;

• Visual processing skills — discrimination in terms of foreground-background, forms, size, and position in space; synthesis, and visual closure;

• Auditory processing skills which, together with language, are the foundational skills for the later development of phonemic skills;

• Memory — visual and auditory, short-term and long-term; and

• Reasoning skills, which enhances reading comprehension.

To practice just one or two of these skills and expect a dramatic improvement in reading is like training only one’s arm muscles and hoping to get fit. To get fit, one has to follow a comprehensive fitness program. On the mental plane, it is exactly the same.

Audiblox is a comprehensive cognitive enhancement program, aimed at the development and automatization of the basic skills of reading, spelling, writing, mathematics, and the skills required in the learning of subject matter.