Reading Program

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Leah:

Priscilla uses the Love and Learning program. It has tapes, videos, and books

that work together to teach sight words. It is a very good program for DS

children, we highly recommend it. It does not always break words down in a

phonetically correct way, but only a teacher would know :-) Most of the time it

is just fine.

When was at the Psychiatrist, she did not believe that he could be able

to read. We know that he does. We can take any of the books used so far in the

Love and Learning program, open to random word pages, and he will read the word

correctly almost every time. Because he can do this in a random manner, we are

certain that he actually reads the words and has not memorized the book from

start to finish, like a nursery rhyme or children's story.

I am convinced that the ability to speak is delayed far more than the ability to

understand and use language. I think speech is delayed by muscle tone and

mouth/tongue coordination issues, and the cognitive skills necessary for

language are well developed.

Loyd