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Reference: Developmental Reading 1 Aida Villanueva & Rogelio Delos Santos P 32 - 34

This document summarizes various obstacles to reading achievement, grouping them into four categories: physical, psychological, environmental, and socio-economic. Physical obstacles include visual or auditory impairments as well as general discomfort. Psychological obstacles involve lack of self-confidence, negative personality traits, and issues with the teacher or home environment. Environmental obstacles relate to poor conditions at home or school. Finally, socio-economic obstacles include low family economic status, commercial influences on literacy, and insufficient government support for reading programs.

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Reference: Developmental Reading 1 Aida Villanueva & Rogelio Delos Santos P 32 - 34

This document summarizes various obstacles to reading achievement, grouping them into four categories: physical, psychological, environmental, and socio-economic. Physical obstacles include visual or auditory impairments as well as general discomfort. Psychological obstacles involve lack of self-confidence, negative personality traits, and issues with the teacher or home environment. Environmental obstacles relate to poor conditions at home or school. Finally, socio-economic obstacles include low family economic status, commercial influences on literacy, and insufficient government support for reading programs.

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Developmental Reading: Obstacles to Reading c.

Physical discomfort among students


such as headache, stomachache,
Facts discovered by Specialists
hunger, thirst, etc
1. Children display dominance in the two 2. Psychological
spheres of their brain; such is the case with a. Child’s lack of self-confidence,
those who are left-handed or left-eye feelings of rejection and other
dominant. But researchers have shown that negative personality traits (shyness,
such manifestation do not affect the ability being withdrawn, poor rapport with
to read. Thus it is advised to allow children others, conflict with parents and
to display their left-handed or left-eye peers, etc)
dominant tendencies. b. Teacher personality factors such as
2. Handicapped children may display spatial or lack of competence, emotional
directional disorientation. Thus they have immaturity, lack of social sense, etc
difficulties in differentiating letters (f and t, c. General emotional atmosphere at
p and b, g and d) home and in school, including the
3. Intellectual or emotional maturation lag is a attitude among parents in guiding
cause for reading retardation their children’s progress in school
4. There is a close correlation between 3. Environmental
intelligence and reading achievement a. Conditions at home and school,
5. Those with high IQ will acquire higher including conditions of poor lighting,
reading skills faster than those with lower ventilation and seating arrangement
IQ 4. Socio-economic
6. Basic to success in reading are: a. Low economic status (poverty) of
a. Visual acuity with eyes integrating children of poor families
images well and b. Sensationalism and retrogressive
b. Auditory acuity with clear hearing of literacy as fostered by
the sounds of words commercialism in mass media
7. Reading is intertwined with language, and c. Policies and programs of
so non-speakers of a language will have government and of the schools on
more difficulties reading a second language the development reading program.
8. Reading and listening is conducive to
proficiency in reading
Reference:
Facts that Relate to Obstacles in Reading Developmental Reading 1
Aida Villanueva & Rogelio Delos Santos
Achievements
P 32 - 34
1. Physical
a. Malfunction of the visual and
auditory faculties
b. In particular, eye defects such as
short/far-sightedness, speech
impediments, etc
M. SAMERA

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