Re: Bad Santa/Sherry/a

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In a message dated 12/29/2004 7:19:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,

sewshawna@... writes:

> we will all keep trying hard to teach him

> to read, and hopefully someday it will come.

Hi a,

I have been battling my district for years to teach Zeb how to really read.

The attitutes in the schools regarding reading to children with ds or those

students that do not conform to their standard programs are considered a waste

of time. The district finally paid for a very expensive reading eval with a

reading therapist at the other end of our state. We have found a reading

program that meets Zeb's learning style. The progress is slow but Zeb can decode

words.The district said it wasn't possible,huh. He may never be a good reader

but

he will learn how to read. Don't give up. We have so much new technoglogy

today anything is possible.

Charlyne

Mom to Zeb 12 DS/OCD/ASD?

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iowa city did an extensive eval in al areas includeing reading and the school

spent over 1000 dolloars on a edmark computer reading program for him, as one

of the programs UIHC suggested, its slow going and he has proved he can read

some, a tiny bit anyways, but the programs go at his pace and now he is in the

kindergarten area of the program the lessons take longer so the teachr has to

split them up for him if he is inattentive that day, and he keeps requiring

great amounts of review, he keeps forgetting words and then has to go back and

review them again. we were hoping that the aricept would help in this area,

but he became soo moody, and the only channge was the aricept so we decided to

take him off until summer vacation and them possibly try again, also he was

sooooo tired on that med, kept falling asleep at school and everywhere, i think

this is what added to his mooodines, as he still gets whiney even off the med

but the doc said to try 600mg of ibuprofen bid , that he may be in pain with

the cold weather etc, and the other day he was sooooo bad, we had had it, so i

gave him the 600mg with a glass of milk, and sent him to bed and awhile

later, he came out and no further whiney or crying not even when it was time to

go

to bed. so maybe he is hurting, i know many of the elderly care for are

hurting horribly, the winters are very cold here and its been really bad over

last

few weeks, did have a day up int he 60's dont know where t hat came from,lol,

gottat love iowa's weather, lol, expecting 6-12inches of snow tomarrow night

they say. shawna