Re: Sound toy/ Closed caption

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Happy Holidays everyone!

There are just so many ways today to help our children in fun ways

learn to get a head start, or to get caught up academically. As

always -my advice is don't just look in the box, it's all around

us.

Our boys just gave their three year old cousin from Boston a Kasey

the Kinderbot for Christmas, which she is learning from already!

He even teaches other languages! Did anyone else find him to be a

useful and fun Holiday present this year?

http://www.fisher-price.com/us/ms5/kasey-the-kinderbot.asp There

are just so many it's hard to list them all however.

About closed caption: Thanks Lori for sharing!

There are many archives on closed caption that I've brought up over

the years -it's a wonderful easy idea and one that is proven to help

stimulate speech -this is just one more recent archive -but they

like many others go back years!

From: " kiddietalk " <kiddietalk@...>

Date: Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:02 pm

Subject: Re: reading

Kathy as I was saying to you off list -what a fun way to get a

preschool child reading and doing math! You must be one happy

grandma! Benny must be thrilled too, he's being provided with an

incredible alternative way to talk to one of his favorite people in

the entire world -you!

The computer, like closed captioning, brings high tech to highly

educational. What you are doing with Bennie is probably going to

prove to be priceless in his academic future.

There were studies done on closed caption that I believe all stemmed

from anecdotal evidence through parents of the hearing siblings of

the hearing impaired children who began reading at younger ages

without being taught to read -due to the closed caption on the TV!

Here are some links on this

" Evidence is mounting that hearing, deaf and hard-of-hearing of all

ages who watch television with captions may be improving their

reading skills. "

http://www.odc.state.or.us/tadoc/techcp30.htm

" children with limited English proficiency are also at risk for

early reading failure. Missed by too many of these children are

oral experiences with language, story telling and early reading

experiences in the home (National Research Council, 1998).

Captioned video technology and parent coviewing offer important,

inexpensive means of providing these experiences in many homes. "

http://www.jgcp.ku.edu/Grants/Abs_Captions.htm

and

http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed372662.html

http://www.ericdigests.org/1995-1/tv.htm

http://www.ncicap.org/Docs/dcb.htm

http://www.cal.org/ncle/DIGESTS/PARKS.HTM

Due to this I recommend that all with young children, especially our

communication impaired children, use the closed caption option when

the child is watching TV -there is nothing to lose and possibly

much to gain.

OK now back to computer -the next step -which my boys love too -is

to have the computer camera set up in both homes so that when you

talk to each other via chat -you can see each other's smiles!

Technology can be so wonderful.

So see -no reason to be frustrated that you can't talk to Benny. In

just a

short time -he may not only be able to talk to you, but email you

younger than any other grandchild on the block!

And PS -We never did GFCF for our kids, but is Benny still on the

EFAs too that he was doing so well on?

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