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# Heggarty and PLD's SSP program. Can the two programs be used together?

PLD offers a structured synthetic phonics program with some embedded phonemic awareness training in Term 1 Foundation;
* Blending three phonemes (to fast-track students into decoding) https://pld-literacy.org/product/learning-to-blend-three-phonemes/ 
* Segmentation (to fast-track students into spelling). https://pld-literacy.org/product/learning-to-segment-cvc-words/ 

| Yes, Heggarty can be presented in conjunction with PLD's SSP program.

Keep in mind that Heggarty of auditory and oral and quite fast-paced. For students who are struggling with phonemic awareness, PLD's programs above offer:
* Pictorial support (to support the oral instruction), e.g. ' Guess this picture?' or 'Sound out this word/picture' 
* PLD's programs also provide instructions to support weaker students (e.g. continuous blending rather than just discontinuous blending and tips to reduce pausing between sounds and repetition.)
* Many schools feed back to the PLD office, that the Tier 2 and 3 students particularly benefit from the PLD phonemic awareness flipbooks.