Best Practices?

[alisonzmom]

Does anyone know of a "best practices" for teaching our kiddos with DS? Alison's resource room teacher has asked me about this. Neither one of us has been able to find anything on the web. Just thought maybe one of you might know of a place to find this info....

Thanks,

Barb

[CC]

Hmmm do you mean specifically for ones with DS or in general?

In general did you mean something like this



www.centralischool.ca/~bestpractice/

CC~

[wrblack]

Don't know of one, neat, handy compilation of best practices for teaching kids with Ds, but lots of info, resources, and links at

www.downsedusa.org/en/us/default.aspx

-- Bob

[michellew]

I've never heard of any Best Practices being established for children with DS. However, from my personal experience, all the things that work with kids with autism also work very well with Rachel. DTT (Discrete Trial Training, also known as ABA), visual supports including PECS if nonverbal and TEACCH/picture schedules and using lots of pictures in teaching materials, lots of repetition, and one on one or small group teaching for new concepts, for instance. Also, modified curriculum and pre-teaching skills or concepts that are coming up if she or he is in a mainstream classroom (and I think that's where our kids belong!) Hope this helps...

[momofrussell]

The Downsed stuff is VERY cool..... look into that!

[alisonzmom]

Thanks guys! I've sent links for DownsEd to Alison's teacher. I gotta tell you guys how cool it is to have teachers and a principal who are seeking out this kind of info. Alison is the first kiddo with DS at her school and even her resource teacher hasn't worked with a kid with DS before this. They've gotton copies of several of the books in the DS series from Woodbine and the principal has even gotton subs in for Alison's classroom teacher, resource room teacher, and her 1 on 1 aide so that they could attend an all day seminar on DS that was presented by our local Parent Network that several docs from Childrens here in Buffalo and from Strong Memorial in Rochester. I truely do believe them when they say that they will do what needs to be done to help make inclusion work for Alison!

Thanks again!
Barb

[Googsmom aka Jennifer]

Barb, that school sounds great!!! {{{{Alison}}}}