Schools To Re- Open in January of 2021. In The Meantime Get a Book at Book Dash

By Tabitha Makumi, Enabling Support Foundation Communications and PR.

With the promise of schools re-opening soon from world and education leaders, Enabling Support Foundation and Book Dash have been working tirelessly to ensure students in early learning have enough books.

The two organizations are on the frontline of providing early children’s books with subjects ranging from environment, conservation, role models and great life lessons.

Among the favourites which have been reviewed by Enabling Support Foundation are a Beautiful Day, Little Ant’s Big Plan, The Fish That Couldn’t Swim, Dance, A Tiny Seed and A Story About Wangari Maathai.

In partnership with Enabling Support Foundation a New York based organization, the South African NGO which works with volunteer creative writers has been instrumental in providing valuable educational books in Kenya and Uganda.

Don't forget to donate to Enabling Support Foundation through a GoFund Me Fundraising Campaign to support equality in education across the globe.

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Difficulty in Early Child Learning? What to Expect from Educators in ESF

Lessons by Robert Zenhausern, Enabling Support Foundation CEO and Founder. The way we teach early reading is the biggest mistake in the history of Education. It handicaps all children and it’s impossible for the 20 per cent of the population we label as “dyslexic” Reading is traditionally taught using phonetic decoding or “sounding out”. It is a long process as the child learns the names and sounds of the alphabet and combines them into words they can say. The child is “reading ready” or simply put, already able to read in Primary One (1) But even after with “reading readiness” courses, some children cannot read. About 20% suffer from a known brain abnormality that interferes with phonetic decoding. (Google Sally Shaywitz) Traditional treatment is administered to give them drills on phonics, that is, giving them more and more of what they cannot do. This is equivalent to making the light brighter for the totally blind. With all the negatives ...

Lessons on Showing Compassion to Children with Dyslexia

Lessons by Dr. Robert Zenhausern, CEO and Founder at Enabling Support Foundation The way Dyslexics are taught can be considered as abuse of the disabled. The most common problem in Dyslexia is in phonetic decoding. But phonetic decoding is the way reading is taught and so these children have difficulty reading. Furthermore, Sally Shaywitz has shown that dyslexics have an abnormal response in the brain system for phonetic decoding, indicating a physical brain disability. The remediation strategy used by the Education Establishment is simple. That is to fix the brain dysfunction or teach phonetic decoding anyway. This is equivalent to remediating the blind by making the light brighter. They teach the deaf to read without phonetic decoding. Why not the dyslexic? Questions to move the conversations along in children and adults alike are how does it feel to be dyslexic? Have you had a “tip of the tongue”? For most, you know how you get when ...

And Also!

Book Reviewed by Tabitha Makumi, Enabling Support Foundation Communications and PR. What’s imagination worth in early child learning? In most schools, children at Primary One and on-wards are taught the basics of creative writing through early writing and hopefully not to say And Also... Authored by Anja Venter, Nkosingiphile Mazibuko and Lauren Beukels , And Also! is a great read on children with great imagination. As a parent and an educator, the book might guide you on how school activities are run with kids who are great in creativity and get to harness those skills into a career at an early age. Read to children at an early age, who knows what kind of careers kids can discover with And Also! Get And Also! At Book Dash and discover the art and magic of storytelling at an early age. Don't forget to donate to Enabling Support Foundation through a GoFund Me Fundraising Campaign to support equality in education across the globe.

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