Why questions

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Hi, everyone, my daughter has been in ABA therapy since she was 4 years old and the "wh" questions are so difficult to master. Our children are visual concrete thinkers and abstract auditory are extremely difficult for them to learn. The "where, what, when and why" are right up there with learning time. What is time, anyway, but an abstract concept. My time, your time, American time, South American time, it's all different, right, but I digress. She is only learning the "why" now at 7 years old. Mommy to mommy, I would suggest teaching him, "who", "what" "where" first, as you can make a game out of it and usual tons of visuals, and the "when" and "why" as they are the hardest of the "wh" groups for them to grasp as they're so abstract. But they'll get it. One

day she was kicking sand into the pool and after the zillionth time of telling her to quit, I went up to her and said, "what are you doing?" And she said, "kicking sand in the pool". I tried not to fall over since this is the first time she answered correctly. And so to push my luck I said, "why are you doing it" and she said, "it's good." So I nearly fell over with shock, and now she's got it. So keep teaching incidentally, meaning NET (natural environment teaching) - outside of the classroom, since they're such visual learners this method will stick! And don't forget to always feed the visual. Your mouth-open-in-amazement moment will come, I promise.

Jazel