Guest guest Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Lots I want to answer in today's digest so I'll take the lazy way out and address them all in one posting, instead of separate messages. ------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Learning to read >> my hearing son who is now 6 seemed to teach himself how to read.<< JD did that too and he was reading by the time he entered kindergarten. I noticed one day that he was able to tell which video he had by reading the computer printed labels I had placed on the spine. I tested him by asking him to give me specific videos and he could pick it out every time. I asked his therapist to put him on a sight reading program, she thought it was way too early to do so but did it at my request. He sailed through that. In his preschool they were going over the sounds each of the letters make and the next thing I knew, he was sounding out words. I recall during his Kindergarten IEP meeting, while we were waiting for it to begin, he picked up a children's book and read it to the director of the school. She commented that it must have been a favorite book of JD's and I told her that I had never seen a copy of that book and that as far as I knew, he hadn't either. Just like talking, JD seems to truly enjoy reading, even now that he's 19. We go to the library weekly and I have to take a canvas bag with us to carry all the books home for our family, and most of them are JD's. >> One of the best tools for learning letters was a poster by his bed that >> we looked at every night. << What JD and I did sort of happened by accident. JD has always seemed to be interested in letters so day, we just sort of started cutting out one or two letters a day out of construction paper, each letter as big as the sheet of paper, and then I taped them up on our family room wall. Within a short while we had the entire Alphabet up there. ------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Meeting tomorrow >> I would definitely not want the tests normed on a DHH child. << My favorite parents advocate addresses this very topic in a page on my website: http://listen-up.org/rights/evals.htm ------------------------------------------------------- Subject: In The Ear Aids >> When I look on the internet, it seems they all specify only for adults, >> but I know I have read of kids using them, and quite successfully! << As far as I know, the main drawback is this. Think about how often you have to get new earmolds. Instead of having to get a new earmold each time your child grows, you would have to send in the hearing aids to have a new cover put on them. It's not exactly an inexpensive thing, and your child would be left without hearing aids during the process since loaner aids would not be possible. Having said that, OtiKids does offer them. The URL for a direct link is way too long, so please visit http://www.otikids.oticon.com and in the left column, click on solutions. ------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Teaching HOH coping skills >> I want to teach her that she will hear better if she moves to a location where people are on her right side.<< Try making a game out of it, each one of you taking turns. Perhaps during her turn, you can sort of play up the soft side of your voice, then move over to her good side and increase your volume (if you're both standing, that would make it easier for you both to move around). Be sure to let her have a turn doing the talking (but have her use the same volume voice each time). When she's on your " bad " side, you could perhaps include lots of " can't hear you " responses. Start with you doing the moving, but work towards having her doing the moving (perhaps there can be some sort of 'reward' when she's on the good side). Don't forget to make it fun! If there's lots of laughter and giggles, the lessons seems to be learned faster - I know this from 19 years of experience with my son. ------------------------------------------------------- That's it for now. Have a Fantastic Friday everyone! -Kay Kay kay@... The Listen-Up Web http://www.listen-up.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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