A Reading Programme for Children with Autism, Speech and Language Impairments and Down syndrome

The primary objective of the POPS Reading Programme is to foster a love of reading by making the teaching experience enjoyable and successful, so that the child will want to do it again. The following programme features are designed to help you achieve the best results from the programme:

1. Progression in Small Easy Steps

The reading scheme supports children who are strong visual/kinaesthetic learners with clear uncluttered illustrations and large easy to read text. It fosters achievement through success and praise by setting developmentally appropriate targets such as more details

2. Language Development Exercises designed by Speech Therapists

The reading scheme targets the vocabulary a child will need in their everyday life based on the order in which children acquire certain words and the ability of the child to pronounce the words. It includes the key vocabulary required for reading and the words needed to develop more details

3. Phonic Decoding in Small Easy Steps

Some children learn letter sounds easily and can readily blend those sounds into words. Others progress well by learning individual letter sounds but struggle to blend the individual letter sounds together to form words. Often the concept is difficult to grasp, or the child may be hampered more details

4. Functional Words for use in Everyday Communication

The reading programme covers the first 400 functional words an English-speaking child learns to say and to understand, together with the first 200 common words. High frequency and everyday topic words are revisited frequently in text and games in every book. more details

5. Children who Benefit from Structure and Routine

Many children respond well to a defined and repeatable structure. All the books in the POPS Reading Programme have a similar style. Keeping the same style ensures children will become familiar and confident with the format as they become involved in the lives of the POPS family. more details