A home-grown online remedial reading programme, Virtual Reading Gym (VRG) has won the Educational Learning Resources Award in the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. The programme was developed by speech therapist Elizabeth Nadler-Nir and her partners David Lewis and Natalia Pereira. VRG is dedicated to the thousands of delayed readers who helped to conceptualise this intervention.”This online reading programme has found a unique way to teach the challenged reader how to be a better reader. VRG’s uniqueness is in that it learns about the reader and it teaches them based on their reading challenges. “Readers work with a more experienced reader mentor who can create a supportive environment to practice targeted reading skills.

Source: News 24 March 26, 2019 03:56 UTC