Re: IEP discussion - goals?

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In a message dated 1/13/2006 9:41:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

lisak555@... writes:

What should I be expecting a teacher to be doing? Should she just be aware

of it and ask someone else to spend the extra time to teach him? Should she

be sending home the lyrics for me to review with him? Should she be

figuring out how he could hear the song better? I don't know what to ask for.

Is part of it his age too?

I never had a TOD for my son at that age, so I am not sure what kinds of

things she would have done, I can only guess. As for proving a need, his need is

already established, and I would think that an explanation of the difficulty

in a music room shouldn't be too hard. Anyone who has been in an elementary

music room can very easily appreciate the noise level and by extension, the

trouble any D/HOH would have there.

This is a bit typical, but it is also a classic thing for a D/HOH kid to do.

Our Ian does it all the time with lyrics. He is now old enough that he will

go online to find the lyrics that he wants to learn. It became a game for us

to take wrong song lyrics and build the entire song around what one of us

misheard.

I would ask for the lyrics to be sent home and refer to it as what it really

is -- pre-teaching ad reinforcement. Taking classroom time for this seems

like a bit of a waste of service time to me. We've had pre-teaching for all

sorts of things. He has had lyrics and later sheet music (music class) sent

home

for him to work on here. We would sing the songs in the car as we drove

around town -- which meant me learning to sing and singing along But we sing all

the time anyway, so this was not odd.

Music class was always hard and we found that Ian needed a bit of extra

help. But he truly loved music class, so I didn't want to simply pull him out

of

there. When all the kids are singing, he didn't have one clear source of

information, instead he had the cacophony of the classroom. In 3rd grade they

started plying the recorder in class -- everyone played. The sound confusion

there was incredible. So, sheet music was sent home. Luckily, I play the piano

and could easily play the simple melodies for him in our a quiet kitchen.

My hubby and son are connecting us to a wireless router system, so I have to

sign of NOW to let them play.

Best -- Jill

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lisak555@... writes:

Should she be sending home the lyrics for me to review with him? Should she be

figuring out how he could hear the song better? I don't know what to ask for.

Is part of it his age too?

,

I never gave much thought to this while was in preschool, but last

year, in kindergarten, when she was singing songs to me for their Christmas

program, I realized that something needed to be done. In 's version of

one song the bells were " rangling " not ringing. So I called the music teacher,

explained the problem and she sent home the music for us to practice the next

day. So on the IEP for 1st grade we included, under accomidations, that sheet

music for songs she is learning was to be sent home. Although I don't really

play an instrument, I've been singing in choirs since I was in 4th grade and can

read music.

So we get into November and I still don't have music for the Christmas

program. I called her teacher and she reminded the music teacher, but still

didn't get anything. 's teacher had mentioned to me that the music

teacher didn't seem to think it was that important, so I emailed the music

teacher explaning why I needed the music and how important it was for .

She replied that she would send home the words as they started to learn the

songs. I forgot the reason that she gave me for not sending home the music,

might have had something to do with copyrights. Well, we muddled through.

knew the words for songs that I was familiar with and she held her own on

the other songs.

All that to say that I don't want the HI working on music with . She

still has some language issues and I'd rather her HI work on addressing those.

However I did relay the above story to her HI and she mentioned that she would

stop into the music class from time to time to observe . has a

somewhat natural knack for music. She really enjoys listening to it and can hum

just about any tune that she has heard...it's just the words that give her great

difficulty. As she gets better at reading, I know she'll be able to better

compensate for not really hearing the words.

Debbie, mom to , 6, moderate SNHL and , 3, hearing

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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