Ready-to-use See and Learn Language and Reading kits are now available to order online from Down Syndrome Education International.
Effective support for early language development
The See and Learn Language and Reading program provides instructions, materials and checklists to help families effectively support their child's early language development.
Step-by-step activities
The first three steps in the program teach early vocabulary using carefully structured activities. The activities present visual language teaching techniques using clear pictures and written words. These evidence-based techniques help children with Down syndrome to learn language more successfully.
Evidence-based visual teaching methods
The activities in the See and Learn Language and Reading program are based on research showing significant benefits from visual approaches and the use of early reading to teach language. Early language and reading activities can improve spoken speech and language, memory, literacy, wider cognitive development and later academic achievement. They have been developed by expert professionals with many years of experience teaching young children with Down syndrome.
Freely available online
Down Syndrome Education International's See and Learn programs are freely available online at www.see-and-learn.org.
Convenient, ready-to-use kits
Ready-to-use See and Learn kits offer the convenience of premade guides, checklists, picture and word cards, reading books and other teaching materials in a plastic storage box. The resources are printed in full, high quality colour, with materials printed on card and cut ready for use straight out of the box.
Three kits are available:
- See and Learn First Word Pictures - the first step in the See and Learn Language and Reading program teaches the first 60 words using pictures and matching and selecting activities
- See and Learn First Written Words - the second step in the See and Learn Language and Reading program uses reading as a support to language development introducing 16 written words and 34 two key word phrases
- See and Learn More Word Pictures - the third step in the See and Learn Language and Reading program teaches a further 55 words using pictures and matching and selecting activities
Each kit is available separately, or all three kits can also be purchased in a convenient, cost-saving See and Learn Language and Reading First Steps At Home set.
Supporting research and employing people with Down syndrome
Purchases of ready-to-use See and Learn kits support future scientific research and See and Learn program development. See and Learn kits are made by the DownsEd production team, many of whom have Down syndrome.
UK edition shipping from 10 June
Kits containing the UK English editions of the first three steps in the See and Learn Language and Reading programme can now be ordered via our international online store.
US edition online and shipping in July
Developed in partnership with the Down Syndrome Foundation of Orange County and Down Syndrome Education USA, the US English edition of the first three steps in the See and Learn Language and Reading programme will be online and shipping in July.
The US edition kits can be preordered now from our international online store and will also be available from our US online store which opens in early July.
