Re: Luca learned the alphabet by himself!

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that is fantastic! WTG!!!!!!!!! Luca!

Carol

Trishasmom

She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

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Marina, this is WONDERFUL news!! This shows how our kids watch everything!

I had a neat experience, too, with Montyman this week at the library. I

was reading to him, and he took my hand 'under' his, with his index finger

pointing to the words. We read a whole book like that, he was 'following' the

words with his finger. I am not convinced that he cant read! Im not completely

convinced that he CAN, but it made me wonder just how much he WAS

understanding!

(((((((Luca)))))) and (((((((Montyman)))))))))) ...smart

boys!

Donna, Montyman's Mom

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In a message dated 6/25/03 3:07:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

marinaviola@... writes:

<< He just learned them by himself! I

was FLOORED. Who knows how many things he knows and we

are not aware of it! I am So proud of him! I thought I

would share it!

Marina >>

Marina,

That is so cool! Seth learned his by himself too. He has a talking toy that

says *push T*, push S * etc... He knows them all plus his colors and shapes.

All with ONE toy! Our kids are amazing and you're right. Who knows how

much more they really know, and we don't know that they know it. Congrats to

Luca!

Gail :-)

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Congratulations Luca!! What a nice surprise!!

Diane

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> From: Marina Canale-Parola <marinaviola@...>

> Date: 2003/06/25 Wed PM 03:05:06 EDT

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> Subject: Luca learned the alphabet by himself!

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In a message dated 6/25/2003 3:07:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

marinaviola@... writes:

> I just wanted to share something great. The other day,

> Luca and I were putting away some of his fashcards

> that have letters on them. No one ever tried to teach

> him letters, because it seemed like it was too hard

> for him. Anyway, we were sitting there, and he handed

> one to me and said " double u " and it was. I thought

> it was just a coincidence, so I didn't really get

> impressed. Then he gave me another one, and said " T " ,

> and it was. So I started asking him other letters, and

> he knows them all! He just learned them by himself! I

> was FLOORED. Who knows how many things he knows and we

> are not aware of it! I am So proud of him! I thought I

> would share it!

Hi Marina,

Go Luca!!!!

Charlyne

Mom to Zeb 10 DS/OCD ?

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Marina, did you cry? That is so wonderful! Of course, Luca showing you he

knows his ABC's puts to rest the myth that our kids aren't incidental

learners, and that all novel behaviors must be " trained " .

I don't recall what kind of relationship you have with Luca's school, but I

hope you call his teacher and speech therapist and let them know. It is so

much fun to share these biggies with them!

It was eerie reading your story- almost identical to ours with Ben.

Just before he turned six I found out that he could name a bunch of

letters. I was handing him these giant letter cards that had good pictures

on them- I ignored the letters and just asked him " what is this? " , pointing

to the pictures. He named about 2/3s of the letters. I will never forget

how astonishing and wonderful that moment was. Like you, I had never

bothered to teach him letters when ID'ng objects and saying his name (he

did neither at that time) seemed way more important. However, I think I

could attribute it to the power of Sesame Street! He watched it a lot and

I think he just took it all in according to his timetable.

And Charlyne, we had the Texas Instrument " Touch N Tell " boards with

removable overlays. He learned his shapes and colors from that, and later

reinfirced his alphabet and numbers. That was the way we figured out that

he has an incredible memory. But it was also something *he* could control.

Hope everyone is staying cool wherever you are. The heat has hit central Ohio!

Love,

Beth Mum to " Pete " age 12 +++++++ soon to be at day camp for six

glorious weeks LOL

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Hi MB,

May PB have a good six weeks of camp when this happens. Enjoy your

respite time. Well, if you can.

Marina,

Congratulations! This is awesome news! Hmm, I wonder if these are

the beginning steps of teaching Luca to read?

Charlyne,

How did Zeb learn to read? Did he start off like this? At what age?

I'm not near this area. Still trying to teach to learn how to

respond to sit, listen, initate when it comes to any type of work

activity. Learning with the ABA Therapist these past 2 weeks and

what a job, whew!

Prompt, demand, reinforce, during each step. Working along pretty

good. These few weeks have been great when applying this method.

Started off with pairing to adjust with anyone working with him. The

therapist did admit he is the most challenging child that they have

worked with. They see he can do it and is smart in a lot of ways and

yes, he is starting to understand. Yes!!

I told them when he accomplishes this mission to the level of

learning anything through them. I'm going to announce it on the

newspaper all the way to Fort Worth, Bedford, here in San

that he can be taught. : )

I mention these places as I have some flashbacks of the school

district not applying these type of behavior methods when it was

taught many moons ago and not called ABA therapy once upon a time.

In the mean time I believe the adjustment given by the Chiro is

doing its job calming his nervous system, then works out

using the work out equipment at my friends clinic with my assistant.

Physical activity is helping out alot. Still working around the

sensory issues.

He does have OCD behavior especially the area of not having a good

day unless he only wears his white boxer briefs. When am I going to

learn to not use those color boxer briefs?

Just wanted to brag about what has been going on with . Oh, he

is into wanting to kiss. He has discovered how to kiss and teaching

not to kiss on the lips, only cheeks or hand. Thats all I need for

someone at school complaining about some type of force or

inappropriate touching.

Not done with my trials. I'm also going to try out the Omega-3 Fish

Oil, a natural orange flavor that I ran across of other kids with

autism using it. We shall see.

Joan, love the latest Disability Solutions newsletter finally had a

chance to read it. This I'm going to disribute to his future High

school he'll next school year.

Thanks for listening. GTG. Take care.

Irma,14,DS/ASD

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In a message dated 6/25/2003 3:07:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,

marinaviola@... writes:

> He just learned them by himself! I

> was FLOORED. Who knows how many things he knows and we

> are not aware of it! I am So proud of him! I thought I

> would share it!

>

Don't remember if I responded to this Marina, but WAY TO GO Luca!!!! That

is really VERY exciting!!!!

Donna