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Hi

Darla,

Just had a lovely chat with your husband.

I had that argument (below) with myself

too before we made our decision. But I think that no matter how hard you all

try to use the same label, for example, all your therapists pick up a mug and

say ‘mug’, eventually someone on the television will call it a ‘cup’

and I don’t see that that’s a million miles from another person calling

it ‘puodukas’ (Lithuanian word).

For ‘bye bye’ he will hear ‘goodbye’

‘see ya’ ‘see you later’ and less common ones like ‘cheers’.

As you are American perhaps he will hear even more variations and I think this

will happen no matter how much you try to control it. I would include a

different pronunciation of the same word to this list. So, as far as is

concerned, ‘potty’ with an English accent and ‘potty’

with an American accent are two different labels for the same object. To add

another variant to the list isn’t such a big deal in my humble opinion.

I am a language teacher so I am familiar

with the fact that there is a difference between what you will consciously teach

to have in his expressive language and you will limit this of course in

the early days and what he will be exposed to around him. As his language

grows he will be more and more aware of what’s around him. In VB we

were told to limit the variation in mands that we wish Tom to produce and make

sure that they are all identical so that if he wants ‘juice’ all

the therapists must say and sign ‘juice’ when prompting and not

have one person calling it ‘drink’ another ‘cup’ and

another ‘pear juice’ and yet another saying ‘more’ for

example but, for receptive skills he MUST know that juice can be called by

those other labels. And I believe it is a tiny step to add a Serbian word or

two to that list. Let me know what you think.

Incidentally, (I just said this on your

answering machine) VB inadvertently really lends itself to bilingualism because

the child learns a word with a sign and that sign can then be used with a

similar word with a different meaning so we use the same sign for bed and sleep

and sleeping and sleepy if I then use the same sign for ‘miegoti’,

you instantly have an idea what that word means.

Sara xxx

Ps. By the way, I do think it will slow

him down but I don’t think it would be for long and I think it would be

worth it.

Re:

Billingual issues

Sorry,

Sara, I almost wrote back to re-phrase that because obviously if one person

always speaks one language and another always speaks another

language, that is consistent, isn't it?!! What I actually meant can

perhaps be better phrased as *congruency of environment*. Please

forgive me here, I have only a very cursory knowledge of all this and I'm very

tired, lol.

By

congruency, I mean that if is being prompted to say *bye bye* by his

therapists/tutors and by me and then prompted to say a

different word (in a different language) in the same situation by his

father, there is an incongruency there. In my rudimentary knowledge of

behaviouralism this would be considered to be an impediment because of the

incongruency. Does that make sense? My understanding is that it is

important that the environment that has outside of his structured therapy

time is congruent with the approach used during the therapy

time.

Please,

disagree with me! I'm open to discussing this.

Darla

In a message

dated 10/07/2006 15:16:38 GMT Standard Time, Moroza-@... writes:

Hi

Darla,

When you

say one critical aspect of the behaviouralist approach is consistency of

environment, what does that mean?

Sara

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