Initial Reflection

A Reflection of Reading Clinics Volunteer Experience
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A Reflection of Reading Clinics Volunteer Experience
I hope to gain teamwork and relationship skills when volunteering in the reading clinics. Volunteer work usually is an excellent way of showing future capabilities to work with people closely and especially with the young who are facing dyslexia problem. Through relationship building, I would create awareness about existence of certain disabilities by communicating to parents and help garner necessary resources which aid kids with knowledge Acquisition. Also, I hope to gain knowledge concerning primary sources of reading limitations, to be precise on whether dyslexia issue arises from visual problems. In this way, detailed information will get obtained and communicated to the society, targeting to extend more teaching strategies to help kids avoid future learning complications.
A challenge that I anticipate includes ineffective communication during the reading clinics experience. The kids may become more anxious or frustrated and fail to cooperate with the volunteer team, from the fact that young people tend to fear strangers. As a result, it would be challenging to interact efficiently and resolve the prioritized problem. Another challenge likely to be evident during the reading clinics is co-occurrence of other issues along with reading disabilities. Kids could be having more than one learning attention problem such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), making it difficult to stay focused when reading (Mascheretti et at.

, 2017). Kids with such problem require evaluation to treat one issue at a time.
I think this volunteer experience is a course assignment because there is a connection between reading skills and goals of early education programs. Students can expand their vocabulary and learn about their world by reading correctly. Also, it is through reading that correct spelling and writing become successfully achieved. When dyslexia issue affects individuals’ education excellence, especially kids the problem becomes a subject to deal with via integration of appropriate interventions. The experience reveals some of the challenges faced by early childhood education. Hence it is a necessary course assignment.
Reference
Mascheretti, S., Trezzi, V., Giorda, R., Boivin, M., Plourde, V., Vitaro, F., & … Marino, C. (2017). Complex effects of dyslexia risk factors account for ADHD traits: evidence from two independent samples. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 58(1), 75-82. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12612