The LiPS program develops phonemic awareness - the ability to identify individual sounds and their order within words - for competence in reading, spelling, and speech. Weak phonemic awareness is a cause of decoding and spelling problems. Individuals add, omit, substitute, and reverse sounds and letters within words. Students with incompletely developed phonemic awareness make decoding errors like reading "steam" for stream, "imagination" for immigration, or spelling errors like "gril" for girl, "cret" for correct, "equetment" for equipment, and pronunciation errors like saying "curve" for curb, "flustrated" for frustrated, "pacific" for specific, etc.
This program uses language to label the look and feel of phonemes. It teaches students to use multi-sensory information to develop a feedback system that promotes self-correction in speech, reading, and spelling. LiPS® begins at an oral level and extends to multisyllabic and contextual levels of reading and spelling activities. It is effective with students that are unable to read and spell words to potential, and students who have been labeled "dyslexic."
The Classroom Kit has everything needed for implementation in a classroom setting.
Kit includes: Trainer's Manual, Research Booklet, Consonant and Vowel Felt Symbol Set, Large Mouth Pictures, Nose and Ear Felt Squares, two sets of five Static Cling Symbols and Mouth Pictures, 24 Felts, 15 felt vowel set, four sets of Colored Blocks, four sets of Letter Tiles, four sets of Card Decks, Audiocassette, and Overview Videotape.
***LiPS Trainer's manual included in the kit or sold separately. All kit components also sold separately.***
Warning: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.