: Preschool Homeschool Curriculum for age 4

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Thanks for the suggestions.  Yes, my boys are apraxic/dyspraxic and are

completely nonverbal.  They love their videos and will watch First Impressions

Letters and Numbers and Letter Factory.  But because of them being delayed and

having poor focus and nonverbal, I just don't know how much they are learning. 

If I asked them to show me what the letter A was, they would not understand or

have any interest.  In the past when I tried t work with them on identifying

pictures and asking them to hand me the picture of a specific item, they would

not even look at it and would just hand me whatever picture was to the left. 

They have very poor focus and cannot seem to focus long enough to identify

stuff.  How do you get a child to the point that they want to show you what they

know?

 

Thanks, Dana

From: l.largey <l.largey@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: Preschool Homeschool Curriculum for age 4

Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 10:00 AM

Dana

If you find it hard to get them to sit and learn ( this is my son

also ) try to think of ways to incorperate what you are trying to

teach into fun or a game. If they have a favorite character see if

you can find a DVD of them doing numbers letters etc.

I found with my ASD son as well as my two NT girls that numbers were

easier to start with. My son learned numbers by us counting his jumps

on his indoor trampoline. Whoda known..lol..

He learned his letters with Leap Frog fridge phonics. But he became

interested by us singing them to him when we played throwing him in

the air..Which you wont want to do with 4 years old but..I think

starting off making them appealing and part of a fun activity can

help.

If you want you can contact me privately and I can give you some

links to toys ( not expensive) that really helped give my son the

concept of numbers, colors etc. And some activities.

Are the boys apraxic? My son is somewhat verbal but is apraxic and is

very hard to understand.. sounds out the words wrong. Like the

word " outside " is consistantly " ooomhaaa " He knows what he is trying

to say and uses the word appropriately but its pronunciation way

off . There are different forms of apraxia that effects kiddos

differently. We have found chelation with some specific supplements

has helped.

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> I would like to start working with my severely developmentally

delayed four year olds with autism and sensory seeking sensory

processing disorder on letters, numbers, shapes, and colors.  They do

not know any of this stuff yet.

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> What is a good curriculum to use for special needs preschoolers for

home school?

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> thanks, Dana

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