games and products that facilitate learning. Can we share our collective knowledge? Interested in making learning enjoyable

January 8, 2002

games for retreival issues- Respond, Outburst

games for drawing simple pictures- Harold and the Purple Crayon

games for learning state capital- Geosafari - State

games for learning simple words- Spelling Bee Bingo, Boggle Jr.

cd rom for science concepts- Magic School Bus Series

barrier game- Guess Who

simple games for turntaking- Barnyard Bingo, tic tac tony, scrambled eggs,

lotto games, mr potato head game

simple games for beginner counting.- math game

FW: Numerous questions about a single topic

>

> I am hoping you AVB people will be able to help me with this one (I have

> yet to see Carbone is action myself).

>

> My son has been doing ABA for almost two years. While other areas have

> seen amazing progress, his language is still quite delayed. He is almost

> 6 and has the rec/exp language of about a 3 yr old.

>

> However, there is one area at the moment I see a problem in and think we

> should tackle it before going on. He is at the moment doing the classic

> 10%/90% thing some kids do. Gets the first one wrong, realizes what

> drill we are doing and gets the remainder right. This comes up

> particularly in functions. Things like " Why do you go to the doctor? " -

> his answer is 'helps sick people'. It is like he knows a chunk of

> answers and listens to the key word in every question and answers it

> with the first association which comes to mind.

>

> Has anyone else had this experience, and how did you overcome it. I

> realize randomly rotating this stuff is essential to make him have to

> listen, but I wondered had anyone come up with anything specific. He

> really looks into your face, searching for what you're asking - it is

> definitely not a compliance issue.

>

> It seems the Wh at the start is what he is missing and not

> understanding.

>

> nicole

>

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