Now write the numbers that you hear in the second column.
Hal
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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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