Disteachia... was stupid question time

April 22, 2003

I picked up on one of your comments, ¡ÈI know there are many people out

there who would say,

the fault was in our teaching,¡É and just wanted to make a clarification.

I know that Dr. Carbone has used the term ¡Èdisteachia¡É to describe

many

problems that children on the spectrum acquire as a result of poor teaching

techniques. He is correct that we need to look at our teaching before we

say ¡Èthe child can¡Çt learn¡É. We also need to recognize

that all children

are individuals with individual strengths and needs. After we have ruled

out our teaching methods, we CAN and SHOULD look at other factors including

the student¡Çs ability.

The best teacher in the world could not teach me how to paint like Monet

because I don¡Çt have the artistic ability :0)

e Quinby

Behavior Consultant

[VerbalBehavior] stupid question time

Kenzie can say almost any one word not good pronunciation by any means.

He can, IF, he wants to. So mands work out ok but what about anything else.

We will have been doing ABA four years next month and we're still on

receptive/expressive object labels. I figure by the time I'm sixty he might

know that a duck is an animal and it quacks. Sorry, still in that funk.

Anyhow, I don't mean to sound stupid or insensitive here but how do those of

you that have completely non-verbal kids do verbal behavior? Do you have to

teach your child to sign everything? Kenze has an ok receptive language but

you can tell that with a motor planning problem that he prefer not to use

words because they are difficult for him to retrieve. And yet, he babbles

all day long. Loves to hear the sound of his voice. I got this little

epiphany today. I realized that I base all of Kenzie's progress and success

on his ability to use language, as in the spoke! n word. Well at almost

seven maybe that's not going to happen. I swear I've based everything on

that. So when you don't have that, what do you do? What is your program?

What is your success? Please don't tell me to teach him sign. He can't

even hold a pencil. The frustrating part is he can say words but how am I

ever going to really teach him without them?

Sorry I've had a bad day and two beers and I'm not sure I made sense.

Please forgive me if I sounded like an idiot.

Penny

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