Advantages And Disadvantages Of Child Intervention

The child has an issue with the letter “b” and the letter “d”, where she gets confused and reverse the two letter at times. Throughout the three days of interventions with the child, some of the intervention activities carried out on the child has its own advantages while some has its disadvantages. For the first day of intervention, the method of using hand analogy to differentiate between letter “b” and letter “b” is beneficial to the child as she is seen using it when she is stuck in completing some activities. As the child is not competent to read sight words, visualizing letter “b” as left hand, letter “c” in between the two hands, and letter “d” as right hand helps her to recognize the letter through the sequence of alphabets. One disadvantage of this activity is the child depending too much on this method, causing her not remembering the formation and shape of each letters.

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In the first activity, the revision on the hand analogy of letter “b” and “d” helps the child to remember what have she learned during the first day of intervention. We make it a practice where whenever she do not know which letter is either “b” or “d”, she will use the hand analogy method to help her to know which is the letter, instead of her repetitively looking at the teacher and wait for answers.

For the second activity, the letter discrimination serves a purpose for the child to distinguish the letters based on two different colours, green and orange. I think this activity is taking too much time as she needs to spend more time to do the colouring. This also causes her to lost track of her memory as she is focused more on the colouring part, rather that discriminating the letters which defeats the purpose of this activity. But the child is seen to use the hand analogy method when she is unsure with the