- oh yes, there is that feeling of being condescended to by a machine, which
puts you through much repetitive work.
My wife the therapist was not easily convinced that these programs were OK.
What they do is done faster than the traditional (and still needed) one
therapist per client per hour for years.
As for the Posit Science programs for oldies, I still say to her my scores are
better, but I don't feel a better listener. But she KNOWS...
Norman Doidge, 'The Brain that Changes Itself' - on recent neuroscience and
'neuroplasticity' - is a heartening book on all this.
Max
Quoting Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>:
> Now write the numbers that you hear in the second column.
>
> Hal
>
> "Poetry is the antidote to the poison of rationality."
> --Mikhail Horowitz
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> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > Frisky Moll Press: http://judithprince.com/home.html
> > >
> > > "I can't read my library card." ---Jeff Hecker, Norfolk, VA
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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