Teaching HI kids to read

[Guest guest]

Deb -

I bought Hooked on Phonics and honestly didn't use it - it has an SRA

reading system with it which now that my kids can read (6 & 8) I use for

practice and comprehension but I did not find the audio phonics tapes

helpful. That was several years ago though and I know they've improved it

quite a bit ( i.e. it's all color now - I have the black and white version)

I also bought The Phonics Game

http://www.games2learn.com/pgamprod.asp?IK=469 which is more fun since it

is in the form of a card game but it requires a lot of time. I am more than

willing to get this to you or anyone else on the list who would want to try

it - most of it is unopened and it has a CD-ROM game for the computer with

it. If you or anyone is interested let me know and I'll ship it out. I too

have heard Teach your child to read in 100 lessons is an excellent book

www.amazon.com ) I'm lucky the parochial school my kids attend teaches

phonetic reading and they seemed to have picked it up in spite of my poor

attempts and waste of money on unused tools ; )

Hope everyone is having a Blessed Easter/Passover!

Warmly,

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[Guest guest]

> Zach (5 years old with mild-mod hearing impairment) wants to learn to

read. I was thinking about getting " Hooked on Phonics " for him, but I'm

starting to wonder if it

> will be difficult for him to learn to sound words out phonetically. His

hearing loss is primarily in the higher frequencies, so will he be able to

sound out the sounds

> that he can't hear? For the same reason, I wonder if he will have more

trouble learning to spell as well. Has anyone tried teaching their child

to read

> phonetically? Any pearls of wisdom would be greatly appreciated! Deb

Petya, who has a moderate/severe hearing impairment is a phonics reader.

The sounds she could not hear she learned to pronounce through many years of

speech therapy and both speech and reading have been supplemented by cuing.

Barb

[Guest guest]

Deb,

I forgot to say that her TOD said she usually doesn't do phonics with her HI

kids. However Petya knew most of the sounds associated with most of the

letters before she got to kindergarten from me working with her at home.

Her TOD is very flexible and not afraid to abandon an approach that doesn't

appear to be working and to try something else.

Petya doesn't read phonetically as easily as my hearing son. I don't know

if that is a deaf/hearing issue or simply a normal difference between two

kids. (It seems like I'm always trying to puzzle out that one, is this a HI

issue or a kid issue?)

Barb

[Guest guest]

--- Barb wrote:

(It seems like I'm always trying to puzzle out that one, is this a HI

issue or a kid issue?)

--- end of quote ---

I'm always trying to figure that out too - which part of a behavior is my child,

which is something they are going through with age and what might be related to

not being able to hear. It's a struggle sometimes!

My son, Tommy, is in first grade and is a super reader - he's currently reading

at a fifth grade level. I didn't do anything formal with him per se, just read

to him lots and lots and lots. We go to the library often (it's a big treat).

I'm at the point that I read different books to each boy since they are at such

different levels now. One thing I always do with both is ask a lot of questions

while we're reading to make sure they are understanding what is going on (so for

example, I'll ask Sam why he thinks the boy is sad in the book). If he doesn't

know, we talk about it or look at various reasons - anything to extract some

abstract thinking.

If your child enjoys television, turn on the captioning on your television.

Take care

Barbara