How do you tell if your children understand things

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Hi All,

How do you tell if your children understand things or just memorize

them (for marks?)? .. .

Mike,

I ABA

ABA for Understanding .

On Experiential Life

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The question still stands.

[Guest guest]

This is a tricky question, and I am answering from the perspective of a mom with

an child with a language based disability. My child has a read difficulty with

memory, particularly long term memory. He has to be retaught and retaught

again. Once he learns it wrote, there is a second step in the process about

application of the information.

Even with simple math, in the short term, he can learn the equation. The next

day and the next and the next it has to be done again. It is almost as if he

has no recollection of it from the day before, unless we cover it repeatedly.

Eventually he has the rote part of it.

Then I have to get him to generalize it. I have to take that equation out

into other environments - the store, the ball game or whatever. If he knows the

information, and is shown a couple times how it is generalized, then he " gets

it. " For my son, it is the rote learning that seems the most difficult.

Generalization, once he has the confidence of rote learning, just takes a couple

of application. And with numbers, he then starts doing it on his own.

I think that seeing your child apply the information is when you know the full

learning process has occurred, whether it is with the reading or the math.

Just a mom's perspective on this. There is so much on this though, and it

really ties into the goals and objectives issues of the IEP. For a lot more on

this, I recommend the book " The Special Education Battlefield. " It really

opened my eyes.

Shoby

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