Re: Prepping for Kindergarten--

[Guest guest]

Hi - one thing we would do when our boys were little is we got 3 x

5 index cards and labelled everything (I mean everything!) in the house

and stuck the card with the name on it. Our " adult " friends used to

laugh and laugh about it. So yes, we had a card on every door with

" door " , a card on the couch with " couch " , etc.

Also, if you watch television at all, it's never too early to turn on

the captions. Even if he can't read, I think it helps our kids make the

association between spoken words and written words. The funny thing is

that I can't watch TV without them now either!

Barbara

Mom to Tom - 14 - CI (11/2005) and hearing aid and

Sam - 11 - CI (5/2006) and hearing aid

rbbx42001 wrote:

> Hi all...

> Just looking for ideas to get on track for

> reading/writing/spelling as he starts Kindergarten next year.

>

> Last week I got him a notebook and started a journal routine. Each

> night he writes his name on the top of a new page, we write a

> sentence (he comes up with the sentence, then he starts with the

> letters he knows, and I usually draw the ones he doesn't.), then we

> write a picture about the sentence. I was going to let him do it a

> few nights a week, usually school nights...then ont he weekend we

> were getting ready for dinner and he said " I didn't do my name

> yet " ...and ran right for the notebook! One night we went out to

> dinenr and got home to late...the next morning he woke me up and

> said " Mommy, we forgot " I said what (in a sleepy daze), he said " We

> didn't do my name and words last ngiht silly goose " and sat ont he

> bathroom floor with his notebook while I took a shower...(which

> wasn't very practical b/c he didn't have aids in yet, and the noise

> of the shower always makes for fun early morning convos!)

> So we're doing well with that. I also got sight word

> flashcards...and we're working on those...he likes them, i think

> they are a little advanced...but the shorter ones are good, and jsut

> recognizing the lowercase letters helps too..

>

> Any other ideas of what has worked with d/hoh kids I'd greatly

> appreciate it! He has enough challenges with speech, and the boy

> can't count for the life of him...so maybe we can at least get him

> on track in this area..!

> Thanks

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Hi - one thing we would do when our boys were little is we got 3 x

5 index cards and labelled everything (I mean everything!) in the house

and stuck the card with the name on it. Our " adult " friends used to

laugh and laugh about it. So yes, we had a card on every door with

" door " , a card on the couch with " couch " , etc.

Also, if you watch television at all, it's never too early to turn on

the captions. Even if he can't read, I think it helps our kids make the

association between spoken words and written words. The funny thing is

that I can't watch TV without them now either!

Barbara

Mom to Tom - 14 - CI (11/2005) and hearing aid and

Sam - 11 - CI (5/2006) and hearing aid

rbbx42001 wrote:

> Hi all...

> Just looking for ideas to get on track for

> reading/writing/spelling as he starts Kindergarten next year.

>

> Last week I got him a notebook and started a journal routine. Each

> night he writes his name on the top of a new page, we write a

> sentence (he comes up with the sentence, then he starts with the

> letters he knows, and I usually draw the ones he doesn't.), then we

> write a picture about the sentence. I was going to let him do it a

> few nights a week, usually school nights...then ont he weekend we

> were getting ready for dinner and he said " I didn't do my name

> yet " ...and ran right for the notebook! One night we went out to

> dinenr and got home to late...the next morning he woke me up and

> said " Mommy, we forgot " I said what (in a sleepy daze), he said " We

> didn't do my name and words last ngiht silly goose " and sat ont he

> bathroom floor with his notebook while I took a shower...(which

> wasn't very practical b/c he didn't have aids in yet, and the noise

> of the shower always makes for fun early morning convos!)

> So we're doing well with that. I also got sight word

> flashcards...and we're working on those...he likes them, i think

> they are a little advanced...but the shorter ones are good, and jsut

> recognizing the lowercase letters helps too..

>

> Any other ideas of what has worked with d/hoh kids I'd greatly

> appreciate it! He has enough challenges with speech, and the boy

> can't count for the life of him...so maybe we can at least get him

> on track in this area..!

> Thanks

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each post is

the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to copyright

restrictions.

>

[Guest guest]

,

The nightly journal is a great idea. I know many K classes do this very

activity.

One thing that we did to help connect the words with objects in our house, was

to labeled almost everything. That really helped in many ways. had

(still has) the tendency to describe things. Once she started to see the word

on the objects she realized that each object in our house had a name. Something

that we learned later was that didn't have the ability to catagorize

certain items. Like if you asked her to name a piece of furniture, she had no

idea what that word meant, but she knew what a couch, chair, and bed was. So

you may want to work on that...just a thought.

Debbie, mom to , 7, moderate SNHL and , 4, hearing

rbbx42001 katie.naughton.qpgc@...> wrote:

Any other ideas of what has worked with d/hoh kids I'd greatly

appreciate it! He has enough challenges with speech, and the boy

can't count for the life of him...so maybe we can at least get him

on track in this area..!

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were

and ask why not. G.B Shaw

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[Guest guest]

,

The nightly journal is a great idea. I know many K classes do this very

activity.

One thing that we did to help connect the words with objects in our house, was

to labeled almost everything. That really helped in many ways. had

(still has) the tendency to describe things. Once she started to see the word

on the objects she realized that each object in our house had a name. Something

that we learned later was that didn't have the ability to catagorize

certain items. Like if you asked her to name a piece of furniture, she had no

idea what that word meant, but she knew what a couch, chair, and bed was. So

you may want to work on that...just a thought.

Debbie, mom to , 7, moderate SNHL and , 4, hearing

rbbx42001 katie.naughton.qpgc@...> wrote:

Any other ideas of what has worked with d/hoh kids I'd greatly

appreciate it! He has enough challenges with speech, and the boy

can't count for the life of him...so maybe we can at least get him

on track in this area..!

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were

and ask why not. G.B Shaw

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[Guest guest]

The funny thing is

that I can't watch TV without them now either!

We can't either!

When my older son was 3, he used to ask questions about the captioning

ex. " Mom, is Woody w-o-o-d-y? "

Caleb is now asking questions about the captioning too, which is so

exciting :-) ; and he's definitely trying to read along. He catches

shorts words like 'stop " , " go " , " oh no " etc. and announces it to

everyone, " Mom, he say GO! "

FL

[Guest guest]

The funny thing is

that I can't watch TV without them now either!

We can't either!

When my older son was 3, he used to ask questions about the captioning

ex. " Mom, is Woody w-o-o-d-y? "

Caleb is now asking questions about the captioning too, which is so

exciting :-) ; and he's definitely trying to read along. He catches

shorts words like 'stop " , " go " , " oh no " etc. and announces it to

everyone, " Mom, he say GO! "

FL

[Guest guest]

The funny thing is

that I can't watch TV without them now either!

We can't either!

When my older son was 3, he used to ask questions about the captioning

ex. " Mom, is Woody w-o-o-d-y? "

Caleb is now asking questions about the captioning too, which is so

exciting :-) ; and he's definitely trying to read along. He catches

shorts words like 'stop " , " go " , " oh no " etc. and announces it to

everyone, " Mom, he say GO! "

FL

[Guest guest]

The writing exercises are great, but don't forget to read to him, too. When you

read to him, have him sit next to you or in your lap (if his hearing is good

enough) and point to the words as you read them, so that he can start

recognizing words by sight. When you finish a page or so, stop and ask questions

about what you just read, to make him start " reading between the lines. " " Why do

you think ny did that? " " Was that a good thing to do? " " What do you think is

going to happen next? " etc.

Kiminy

rbbx42001 katie.naughton.qpgc@...> wrote:

Hi all...

Just looking for ideas to get on track for

reading/writing/spelling as he starts Kindergarten next year.

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In a message dated 9/21/2006 6:43:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

Barbara.T.Mellert@... writes:

Also, if you watch television at all, it's never too early to turn on

the captions. Even if he can't read, I think it helps our kids make the

association between spoken words and written words. The funny thing is

that I can't watch TV without them now either!

Barbara

I think our daughter read so early because we did this as well. And now,

even when Ian is not here, we turn on the captions. I can't watch a rented movie

without them anymore!

And now only my TV in my office has captions.The one in the living room is

old (and I mean really old, 1987!) but it is a good JVC and there's nothing

wrong with it, so we haven't replaced it. Anyway since tvs now are able to be

set to turn on the captions, our cable company no longer has a setting for

them like that used to. I am actually more disappointed than Ian.

Jill

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In a message dated 9/21/2006 5:36:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

katie.naughton.qpgc@... writes:

He has enough challenges with speech, and the boy

can't count for the life of him...so maybe we can at least get him

on track in this area..!

Thanks

Sharing .... give him a stack of raisins, or cookies, or pretzels, or apple

slices and have him share with you guys. We used apple and pear slices all the

time with our daughter, . Give 3 to daddy and 3 to me. How many are

left for you? She would count out goldfish, pretzels and Skittles (but she

always cheated with the Skittles and kept all the red ones for herself, LOL)

We'd get more advanced with her as she went along ... give everyone the same

amount. How many did each person get? Or we'd have the person tell her how

many they wanted (usually with goldfish) and she'd count them out.

It reinforced counting with a visual representation of the numbers. She

could see that when she gave 3 slices of apple to me and daddy, she had only 2

left for herself. Then when we each gave her one slice, she had 4 and we only

had 2. So we could also talk about whether that was fair sharing. It always

came out even when Ian was there, because everyone got 2 slices.

She's a quick study and was soon doing math problems at lunchtime using her

goldfish. But " sharing " was great for developing counting skills.

Best -- Jill

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/22/2006 3:40:06 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

kiminyme@... writes:

When you finish a page or so, stop and ask questions about what you just

read, to make him start " reading between the lines. " " Why do you think ny

did that? " " Was that a good thing to do? " " What do you think is going to happen

next? " etc.

And depending on what you're reading, we would also " tell the pictures " or

" read the pictures. " Illustrators often include all kinds of things that are

not in the written text. That gave us a chance to work on describing things.

Even after my kids had technically outgrown picture books, we still would read

them, because of the pictures.

Both of them are technically too old for the Lemony Snicket books, but those

are the ones they prefer to read aloud while we're driving places. They're

fun and make us laugh.

Best --Jill

[Guest guest]

We read ALL THE TIME! He LOVES going to the library! (Somewhat obsessed!)

He doesn't really watch TV, occasionally on the weekends he'll watch a movie,

and I do turn the captioning on then...with the movies it seems to be accurate..

He's gotten much better recently at understanding/reading comprehension...

I love the labeling idea...when I was learning German I had labels all over the

house for the German word....never thought to do it in English:)

Thanks guys~ some great ideas--

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From: Listen-Up [mailto:Listen-Up ] On Behalf Of

Kiminy

Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 3:38 AM

To: Listen-Up

Subject: Re: Prepping for Kindergarten--

The writing exercises are great, but don't forget to read to him, too. When you

read to him, have him sit next to you or in your lap (if his hearing is good

enough) and point to the words as you read them, so that he can start

recognizing words by sight. When you finish a page or so, stop and ask questions

about what you just read, to make him start " reading between the lines. " " Why do

you think ny did that? " " Was that a good thing to do? " " What do you think is

going to happen next? " etc.

Kiminy

rbbx42001 katie.naughton.qpgc@...

> wrote:

Hi all...

Just looking for ideas to get on track for

reading/writing/spelling as he starts Kindergarten next year.

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Many kids start kindergarten behind where your son already sounds. However, I'm

all for starting out ahead so that if it turns how that he misses a lot, you

have time to work on that without him missing any academics he needs. I did

sight words with Neal, and I think that was one of the biggest helps. You don't

need very many for Kindergarten. I think only the first 20 are required here in

California. Maybe you could talk to a Kindergarten teacher at your school and

ask for a list. I had booklets broken down into the first 100, 2nd 100 and so

on from when my daughter was in 1st grade, so I just use those and Neal was at

about 70 words when he started Kinder. I also put up a 100's chart in his room

to work on numbers. We would count on the chart and also do it counting by

ten's. Neal was bad with counting prior to Kinder too, so I was worried about

that. We were always working on language, so math was a little behind. But

having that chart up got him more interested and he was fine by Kindergarten.

Knew his numbers and how to write them plenty high.

The other thing I might work on is vocabulary. Just making sure your son knows

words that they might use right away in Kindergarten like " shape, " upper case, "

" lower case, " " fewer, " " greater, " etc. That way he doesn't have to work on new

vocab at the same time as learning the targeted skill.

Rhonda Savage

Mom to Audrey, 9 1/2, hearing; and Neal, 7, CII at 2.9 years

" Hard does not mean impossible. "

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much

These ideas have been great..I went to target friday night and picked up

super sticky post its to label everything in the house...while i was in

the clearance section they had a bunch of school supplies marked

down...i actually found a set of post its already marked with a lot of

household labels (haven't figured out how to label the dog yet!)these

were in English and Spanish...and were a whopping 74 cents...so i got

those too and labeled everything downstairs... loves it! He walks

around the house telling me what everything is...and has started telling

me, " mommy, see, c is for couch and chair " ...so it works! we weren't

home much this weekend...but he asked this morning when I was going to

put " what the words are " upstairs...so I think he's hooked!

I also ordered this cute little numbers puzzle from ltd commodities/abc

distributing...it has the number on one side and the same number of

objects on the other and he liked that...he said " this will make sure im

good at numbers and counting. " he likes it so far...and i think it was

only $5....

I'll contact the school to get the sight words...good idea!

We met a boy yesterday (a " normal " boy) who started kindergarten at the

school joey will be at next year...I was talking to his mom and the more

she talked the more i thought was ok! , the other boy, can

only write his J, not the rest of his name...doesn't know any other

words...and his speech is worse than s!! (I asked if she had his

hearing tested, and she said she had....I still think he needs speech

therapy---I'm used to the crazy sounding words...but even I couldn't

understand him!....)

we went to a bday party yesterday at mcdonalds (wow was that noisy!!!)

and I realized that is the popular kid! It's crazy...all the boy

and girls are calling for him...even the parents! One of the autistic

boys in his class was scared of the slide..so his Dad asked to help

him...and sure enough..by the end of the party he was going down the

slide! then a girl from the other side of McDs was calling " " I

thought it was another one, b/c I didn't know the girl...apparently her

name was misty and she went to his school last year (joey only started

last march..and most of the other kids at the party were in the class

too...) before she would leave she climbed up in the playspace to give

a hug!

At the apple orchard field trip friday---he sat on the hay wagon....not

next to my dad---his best buddy, but between two girls, holding both

their hands!

so, i'd say socially he's doing ok:)

these tips have been great...i actually gave most of them to Jame's mom

yesterday--because it definitely won't hurt him!

My mother-in-law is coming this weekend...I hope she doesn't think I'm

nuts for everything in the house labeled! Wayne asked me " did you label

these for ? " I said " no, I thought Buddy (our dog) could use some

work spelling:) " (I tend to be a smart arse..)

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

Thanks

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From: Listen-Up [mailto:Listen-Up ] On

Behalf Of Rhonda Savage

Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:52 PM

To: Listen-Up

Subject: Re: Prepping for Kindergarten--

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Many kids start kindergarten behind where your son already sounds.

However, I'm all for starting out ahead so that if it turns how that he

misses a lot, you have time to work on that without him missing any

academics he needs. I did sight words with Neal, and I think that was

one of the biggest helps. You don't need very many for Kindergarten. I

think only the first 20 are required here in California. Maybe you could

talk to a Kindergarten teacher at your school and ask for a list. I had

booklets broken down into the first 100, 2nd 100 and so on from when my

daughter was in 1st grade, so I just use those and Neal was at about 70

words when he started Kinder. I also put up a 100's chart in his room to

work on numbers. We would count on the chart and also do it counting by

ten's. Neal was bad with counting prior to Kinder too, so I was worried

about that. We were always working on language, so math was a little

behind. But having that chart up got him more intereste! d and he was

fine by Kindergarten. Knew his numbers and how to write them plenty

high.

The other thing I might work on is vocabulary. Just making sure your son

knows words that they might use right away in Kindergarten like " shape, "

upper case, " " lower case, " " fewer, " " greater, " etc. That way he doesn't

have to work on new vocab at the same time as learning the targeted

skill.

Rhonda Savage

Mom to Audrey, 9 1/2, hearing; and Neal, 7, CII at 2.9 years

" Hard does not mean impossible. "

[Guest guest]

I have to say it . I thought Kindergarten was for the purpose

of learning reading readiness skills, and number sense, social

skills and how to write your name. I actually have my elementary ed

degree (from 10 years ago, but now I am a Real Estate Broker. It

never crossed my mind to be worried about these things with my son,

who is diagnosed HOH since age 4. He went to daycare, which had a

bit of a preschool curriculum, and then he went to Kindergarten.

That's when I found out that there was a huge range of skill levels,

and my son was about in the middle. As the years progressed, most

of the students evened out. Now in 5th grade, my son, who did not

read with any sort of fluency until the end of second grade, is one

of the best readers in his class. He also excels at Math. Writing

and organization are still big challenges.

While I admire your awareness and commitment, don't worry too much

yet. Enjoy the little darling before he starts talking back too

much.

Tracey

[Guest guest]

I'd agree with you here, Tracey - both my boys were excellent, early

readers. It matters now (they're in 6th and 8th grade) to the extent

that they're able to understand what they're reading in textbooks but

for the most part, their peers have caught up with them. Older son

doesn't like math but is doing okay, my younger son loves math. For my

older son, writing and organization are the big things but he's getting

better at both. I think some must be developmental...

traceyandynathen wrote:

> That's when I found out that there was a huge range of skill levels,

> and my son was about in the middle. As the years progressed, most

> of the students evened out. Now in 5th grade, my son, who did not

> read with any sort of fluency until the end of second grade, is one

> of the best readers in his class. He also excels at Math. Writing

> and organization are still big challenges.

>

[Guest guest]

I'd agree with you here, Tracey - both my boys were excellent, early

readers. It matters now (they're in 6th and 8th grade) to the extent

that they're able to understand what they're reading in textbooks but

for the most part, their peers have caught up with them. Older son

doesn't like math but is doing okay, my younger son loves math. For my

older son, writing and organization are the big things but he's getting

better at both. I think some must be developmental...

traceyandynathen wrote:

> That's when I found out that there was a huge range of skill levels,

> and my son was about in the middle. As the years progressed, most

> of the students evened out. Now in 5th grade, my son, who did not

> read with any sort of fluency until the end of second grade, is one

> of the best readers in his class. He also excels at Math. Writing

> and organization are still big challenges.

>

[Guest guest]

I'd agree with you here, Tracey - both my boys were excellent, early

readers. It matters now (they're in 6th and 8th grade) to the extent

that they're able to understand what they're reading in textbooks but

for the most part, their peers have caught up with them. Older son

doesn't like math but is doing okay, my younger son loves math. For my

older son, writing and organization are the big things but he's getting

better at both. I think some must be developmental...

traceyandynathen wrote:

> That's when I found out that there was a huge range of skill levels,

> and my son was about in the middle. As the years progressed, most

> of the students evened out. Now in 5th grade, my son, who did not

> read with any sort of fluency until the end of second grade, is one

> of the best readers in his class. He also excels at Math. Writing

> and organization are still big challenges.

>

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/26/2006 2:41:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

katie.naughton.qpgc@... writes:

Today was C show and tell day at his PreK, I asked him if he wanted to

bring the Cat in The Hat (the stuffed one) and he said, how about

clifford? we couldn't find clifford...but all morning he kept telling

me things that started with C. " I could bring cereal! The couch is too

big---that would be goofy. The chair is too big too. " on and on, and

i think its obvious that he is absorbing all we've been doing...and is

able to apply it all when required...so I guess we'll keep exposing him

and keep labeling everything..a

This made me laugh ... I remember alphabet days. Those were fun! On C day I

brought in cut up cantelope for the class snack. At the time it was Ian's

favorite food. And on P day, I was the " visiting artist " and we made paper.

Messy and an absolute hoot!

It was so much more fun. (sigh) My kids are too big for all that now. Can I

borrow someone's kindergartner to play with?

Best -- Jill

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/26/2006 4:21:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

tracey@... writes:

I have a 3.5 year old that loves art. Have to warn you. His nick

name is " Destructo Boy " . Just let me know and I'll ship him out to

you.

We use to call my daughter Godzilla, LOL. Just punch some airholes in the

box and send him out!

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/26/2006 4:21:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

tracey@... writes:

I have a 3.5 year old that loves art. Have to warn you. His nick

name is " Destructo Boy " . Just let me know and I'll ship him out to

you.

We use to call my daughter Godzilla, LOL. Just punch some airholes in the

box and send him out!

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/26/2006 3:55:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

katie.naughton.qpgc@... writes:

Cat in the hat for instance...he can say all those words fine...he gets

to the actual cat in the hat and it becomes " capnthegarblegarblto

same with four-wheeler.same with four-wheeler. ..it becomes.

messy! and ketchup...not soo far off, but still much along the

" getchsup " lines!:-)

For some of this kind of stuff, I wonder how much of it is pretty standard

developmentally and how much is related to hearing. We didn't have these issues

with Ian, and as a results didn't find his hearing loss until he was over 7.

But my sister, who has no hearing or speech issues, use to do all kinds of

weird pronunciation things. And counting ... that was quite amusing because

when she was 3 or 4 she didn't believe that there was a number 6. She learned

to " count fast " by watching Sesame Street. They had a segment where they

counted very quickly up to ten and then back down. (mind you this was YEARS

ago).

And, at the point where they said " six " she would always take a breath. So,

there was no number six as far as she was concerned. And when we tried to

convince her that she was skipping a number, she'd " prove it " to us by counting

up to ten and of course skipping six. If I remember this right, it took going

to nursery school to get her to believe us about six being real.

My nephew said " jabbers " for garbage, among other weird mis-heard or

mis-pronounced words. We still call it jabbers, and I suppose we sound rather

doofey

doing it. My daughter didn't like the sound of the word " screamed " and

thought it should be " scram " so she would say things like " Ian scared me, so I

scram really loud. "

She was always very creative when conjugating verbs and we'd have to fight

back laughter, because she'd get insulted when we giggled. She announced one

day the English made no sense at all, so she was going to create some much

needed rules. Mouse's plural mice would now become mouses, like houses, and a

whole host of other irregular words would now follow her rules. Sometimes it

was like listening to latin being spoken. She insisted that if we all just did

it her way the rest of the world would follow our lead. (LOL).

Some language confusion is normal. I think it would be really hard to not

worry about whether some mistakes are the natural developmental kind of mistake

or something to actually worry about. I find the mistakes hilarious, luckily

Ian laughed at his, but our still gets indignant when she mispronounces

things. Like when she tried to sound out " facetious " ... now that was

hysterical.

Best -- Jill

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/26/2006 3:55:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

katie.naughton.qpgc@... writes:

Cat in the hat for instance...he can say all those words fine...he gets

to the actual cat in the hat and it becomes " capnthegarblegarblto

same with four-wheeler.same with four-wheeler. ..it becomes.

messy! and ketchup...not soo far off, but still much along the

" getchsup " lines!:-)

For some of this kind of stuff, I wonder how much of it is pretty standard

developmentally and how much is related to hearing. We didn't have these issues

with Ian, and as a results didn't find his hearing loss until he was over 7.

But my sister, who has no hearing or speech issues, use to do all kinds of

weird pronunciation things. And counting ... that was quite amusing because

when she was 3 or 4 she didn't believe that there was a number 6. She learned

to " count fast " by watching Sesame Street. They had a segment where they

counted very quickly up to ten and then back down. (mind you this was YEARS

ago).

And, at the point where they said " six " she would always take a breath. So,

there was no number six as far as she was concerned. And when we tried to

convince her that she was skipping a number, she'd " prove it " to us by counting

up to ten and of course skipping six. If I remember this right, it took going

to nursery school to get her to believe us about six being real.

My nephew said " jabbers " for garbage, among other weird mis-heard or

mis-pronounced words. We still call it jabbers, and I suppose we sound rather

doofey

doing it. My daughter didn't like the sound of the word " screamed " and

thought it should be " scram " so she would say things like " Ian scared me, so I

scram really loud. "

She was always very creative when conjugating verbs and we'd have to fight

back laughter, because she'd get insulted when we giggled. She announced one

day the English made no sense at all, so she was going to create some much

needed rules. Mouse's plural mice would now become mouses, like houses, and a

whole host of other irregular words would now follow her rules. Sometimes it

was like listening to latin being spoken. She insisted that if we all just did

it her way the rest of the world would follow our lead. (LOL).

Some language confusion is normal. I think it would be really hard to not

worry about whether some mistakes are the natural developmental kind of mistake

or something to actually worry about. I find the mistakes hilarious, luckily

Ian laughed at his, but our still gets indignant when she mispronounces

things. Like when she tried to sound out " facetious " ... now that was

hysterical.

Best -- Jill

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/26/2006 3:55:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

katie.naughton.qpgc@... writes:

Cat in the hat for instance...he can say all those words fine...he gets

to the actual cat in the hat and it becomes " capnthegarblegarblto

same with four-wheeler.same with four-wheeler. ..it becomes.

messy! and ketchup...not soo far off, but still much along the

" getchsup " lines!:-)

For some of this kind of stuff, I wonder how much of it is pretty standard

developmentally and how much is related to hearing. We didn't have these issues

with Ian, and as a results didn't find his hearing loss until he was over 7.

But my sister, who has no hearing or speech issues, use to do all kinds of

weird pronunciation things. And counting ... that was quite amusing because

when she was 3 or 4 she didn't believe that there was a number 6. She learned

to " count fast " by watching Sesame Street. They had a segment where they

counted very quickly up to ten and then back down. (mind you this was YEARS

ago).

And, at the point where they said " six " she would always take a breath. So,

there was no number six as far as she was concerned. And when we tried to

convince her that she was skipping a number, she'd " prove it " to us by counting

up to ten and of course skipping six. If I remember this right, it took going

to nursery school to get her to believe us about six being real.

My nephew said " jabbers " for garbage, among other weird mis-heard or

mis-pronounced words. We still call it jabbers, and I suppose we sound rather

doofey

doing it. My daughter didn't like the sound of the word " screamed " and

thought it should be " scram " so she would say things like " Ian scared me, so I

scram really loud. "

She was always very creative when conjugating verbs and we'd have to fight

back laughter, because she'd get insulted when we giggled. She announced one

day the English made no sense at all, so she was going to create some much

needed rules. Mouse's plural mice would now become mouses, like houses, and a

whole host of other irregular words would now follow her rules. Sometimes it

was like listening to latin being spoken. She insisted that if we all just did

it her way the rest of the world would follow our lead. (LOL).

Some language confusion is normal. I think it would be really hard to not

worry about whether some mistakes are the natural developmental kind of mistake

or something to actually worry about. I find the mistakes hilarious, luckily

Ian laughed at his, but our still gets indignant when she mispronounces

things. Like when she tried to sound out " facetious " ... now that was

hysterical.

Best -- Jill

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/26/2006 5:39:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

JillcWood@... writes:

Like when she tried to sound out " facetious " ... now that was

hysterical.

Best -- Jill

I forgot to say how she said it ... face-tish-ous. She asked what it meant.

We had no clue what she was saying and she wouldn't show us what she was

reading, wouldn't read the complete sentence, and insisted that she was

pronouncing it correctly (after all, she is 12 and knows everything, just ask

her). So

for a few moments we sat there trying to guess the word from her attempts.

(fictitious and fastidious were as close to a real words as we got)

Then it dawned on me which word it was, and I just started laughing. Which,

of course, just got her more annoyed, which made me laugh even more. (grin).

I swear a sense of humor is what is going to get me through puberty this

time.

-- Jill