FONEMZ®: Speak and Read
An Evidence-Based, Hierarchical, Multimodal Tool for Phonemic Awareness,
Speech Sound Production, Spelling, and Reading
An Evidence-Based, Hierarchical, Multimodal Tool for Phonemic Awareness,
Speech Sound Production, Spelling, and Reading
There are now 5 video Milestones of FONEMZ: Speak & Read that demonstrate how to utilize FONEMZ to move from teaching phonemic awareness, the ability to blend sounds visually and verbally, associating sound production with words and then building words volitionally. The videos show how the student develops the readiness to learn to associate letters of the alphabet with the sounds. Once this is achieved the student progresses quickly to spelling and reading...in the same lesson! It is done in a hierarchical, multimodal way. Students direct their own learning with their whole body and brain to learn.
The videoed subjects are children, but the same process is true for all ages.
The videoed subjects are children, but the same process is true for all ages.
FONEMZ®(phonemes), is easy to learn and easy to use.
FONEMZ is used with students of all ages
• Early intervention programs
• Infants
• Preschoolers
• Elementary School age
• Middle and High School students
• Adults
• Early intervention programs
• Infants
• Preschoolers
• Elementary School age
• Middle and High School students
• Adults
FONEMZ is used with students of Multiple disabilities:
• Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals
• Apraxia
• Dyslexia
• Down Syndrome
• Autism
• AAC device users
• Adults learning to speak again
• English Language Learners (ELL's) for accent reduction
••• and people with various communicative disorders and learning difficulties.
• Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals
• Apraxia
• Dyslexia
• Down Syndrome
• Autism
• AAC device users
• Adults learning to speak again
• English Language Learners (ELL's) for accent reduction
••• and people with various communicative disorders and learning difficulties.
FONEMZ® is an evidence-based practice supported by over 10 years of research,
20 years of practiced-based evidence and 40 years of experience.
FONEMZ® utilizes a different color and a different shape to represent each of the phonemes in English.
20 years of practiced-based evidence and 40 years of experience.
FONEMZ® utilizes a different color and a different shape to represent each of the phonemes in English.
Examples of four FONEMZ®
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"o" in "hot" "oo" in "cool "ee" in "see" "p" in "pie"
This 4 year-old just put up the sounds to build the word/name: Pooh
FONEMZ is a fun, multi-sensory and multimodal way
to learn to speak, spell, read and write.
A learner does not need to know anything before beginning to use it.
Through the use of FONEMZ, the concepts of a sound (a phoneme) and speaking the sound (phoneme production)
are clearly demonstrated.
In fun, highly engaging activities, the beginning reading concepts of:
sound symbol association, sound blending and
left to right progression are taught.
Through the use of FONEMZ, the concepts of a sound (a phoneme) and speaking the sound (phoneme production)
are clearly demonstrated.
In fun, highly engaging activities, the beginning reading concepts of:
sound symbol association, sound blending and
left to right progression are taught.
Students quickly build phonological awareness and auditory discrimination skills by using visual, tactile, proprioceptive and kinesthetic association in highly interactive fun activities.
Literacy skills are greatly enhanced, no matter what the language level, in response to this stimulating intervention.
Literacy skills are greatly enhanced, no matter what the language level, in response to this stimulating intervention.
Color and shape assists memory.
The tangible nature of FONEMZ® allows for physical engagement. Phonemes can be visually compared and sound order can be manipulated. By utilizing other avenues like vision, touch and movement, we as teachers can support, clarify and enhance the awareness of phonology that is associated with phonics, reading, spelling and speaking.
In the Teacher's Guide, numerous innovative games are suggested that incorporate some of the well researched best practices of the teaching profession, including, giving students autonomy and choice.
Stroke Patients
For adults who have suffered from a stroke and experienced the loss of speech, the FONEMZ program can be a very effective tool in building new pathways of learning. The recognition of color and shape is a right brain function. Often patients who loose their speech, suffer from a stoke that occurred in the left hemisphere of the brain. Therefore, a person using FONEMZ can utilize a persons stronger neurological ability to connect with the new learning of speech. Additionally, older patients may find it difficult to use the letters of alphabet, in association with relearning sound production. It often seems very elementary to a person who used to be a prolific reader…and now, unable to connect to simple letters. It reminds them of what they have lost. The memory of lost literacy can cause emotional upheaval, which can negate the therapy process for that day. FONEMZ in a new, interesting, colorful approach that can make the relearning of speech a positive and enjoyable process. In most cases the learning is rapid and is retained.
Accent Reduction
Adults who are English Language Learners, have found FONEMZ to be very useful in accent reduction therapy. The use of the alphabet can pose problems, because, of a person's old way of thinking about sounds and letters (their schema). They have a different perception of how letters should be pronounced. This is hard to bypass in order to think of a new way of pronouncing a sound. FONEMZ offers a fresh new perspective by using color and a unique shape to assist in the memory of the new sound pronunciation(s).
Evidenced-Based Practice
The FONEMZ program, and the concepts and tenets incorporated in the program, have been substantially researched for over ten years. Five years of data collection preceded the scientific research that has demonstrated the efficacy of this program. Twenty years of practice-based evidence with multiple ages and disabilities have supported it.
Pieretti, R.A., Kaul, S.D., Zarchy, R.M., and O’Hanlon, L.M. (2015). Using a multimodal approach to facilitate articulation, phonemic awareness and literacy in young children. Communicative Disorders Quarterly
The tangible nature of FONEMZ® allows for physical engagement. Phonemes can be visually compared and sound order can be manipulated. By utilizing other avenues like vision, touch and movement, we as teachers can support, clarify and enhance the awareness of phonology that is associated with phonics, reading, spelling and speaking.
In the Teacher's Guide, numerous innovative games are suggested that incorporate some of the well researched best practices of the teaching profession, including, giving students autonomy and choice.
Stroke Patients
For adults who have suffered from a stroke and experienced the loss of speech, the FONEMZ program can be a very effective tool in building new pathways of learning. The recognition of color and shape is a right brain function. Often patients who loose their speech, suffer from a stoke that occurred in the left hemisphere of the brain. Therefore, a person using FONEMZ can utilize a persons stronger neurological ability to connect with the new learning of speech. Additionally, older patients may find it difficult to use the letters of alphabet, in association with relearning sound production. It often seems very elementary to a person who used to be a prolific reader…and now, unable to connect to simple letters. It reminds them of what they have lost. The memory of lost literacy can cause emotional upheaval, which can negate the therapy process for that day. FONEMZ in a new, interesting, colorful approach that can make the relearning of speech a positive and enjoyable process. In most cases the learning is rapid and is retained.
Accent Reduction
Adults who are English Language Learners, have found FONEMZ to be very useful in accent reduction therapy. The use of the alphabet can pose problems, because, of a person's old way of thinking about sounds and letters (their schema). They have a different perception of how letters should be pronounced. This is hard to bypass in order to think of a new way of pronouncing a sound. FONEMZ offers a fresh new perspective by using color and a unique shape to assist in the memory of the new sound pronunciation(s).
Evidenced-Based Practice
The FONEMZ program, and the concepts and tenets incorporated in the program, have been substantially researched for over ten years. Five years of data collection preceded the scientific research that has demonstrated the efficacy of this program. Twenty years of practice-based evidence with multiple ages and disabilities have supported it.
Pieretti, R.A., Kaul, S.D., Zarchy, R.M., and O’Hanlon, L.M. (2015). Using a multimodal approach to facilitate articulation, phonemic awareness and literacy in young children. Communicative Disorders Quarterly