My wife the speech-language therapist would like every family and teacher to
know that first the child's hearing needs testing by an audiologist - who may
well say hearing is perfect but diagnose some level of auditory processing
disorder. Marilyn's programs with children include the Fast ForWord computer
programs from Scientific Learning USA. Under them auditory processing disorder
is treated intensively, measurably, and progress can be extraordinary.
Yesterday she got me to start monitoring two highschool students in year eleven.
They will attend for two hours five days a week for up to eight weeks. APD ought
to have been diagnosed in these years ago, and their reading skills might have
developed with their peer group.
One current adult client suffered severe brain damage in a road accident.
Insurance is paying for weeks of Fast ForWord. His improvement from
noncommunication to genuine conversation is remarkable.
Maz has also acquired from Posit Science a computer program for oldies.
December before last I did it for an hour a day and by the end of eighty hours
my short term memory was measurably improved, my listening attention ditto,
'narrative memory' ditto.
If my memory was perfect I'd list the other improvements.
She has just started me on it all over again.
Max in Melbourne
Quoting Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi, all photogeeks and just plain nice folks.
>
> One of my 6 yr old grandtwinboys turns out to be a photogeek, awesomely
> manipulating and thoroly exploiting every camera that comes into his hands.
> His brother's more than competent, but nowhere in the same league.
>
> As it happens, the p-geek's lagging way behind in his reading skills
> [according to tests in his first grade class], tho he loves books and
> reading [teacher sez he loves reading but not learning how to read....? and
> his mom concurs, explaining that he doesn't "concentrate" and needs to
> "focus". <sigh> I've always thought those two words mean bored or uptight
> or both.
>
> I'll send him a book about Ansel Adams and maybe the camera work for the
> Star Wars films which he loves.
>
> Any suggestions, oh p-geekoes?
>
> happy and wanting to be helpful gramma Judy
>
> --
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>
> "I can't read my library card." ---Jeff Hecker, Norfolk, VA
>
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