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 Clinical Kit is a small version of the Classroom Kit.
Clinical Kit includes: Trainer's Manual, Research Booklet, Nose and Ear Felt Squares, one set of five Static Cling Symbols and Mouth Pictures, one set of Colored Blocks and Letter Tiles, 15 Felt Vowels Set, Audiocassette, and Overview Videotape.
***LiPS Trainer's manual included in the kit or sold separately***
Warning: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.