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Post by crm2330 on Jan 9, 2008 1:26:00 GMT -5
I was wondering if anyone has had any problems with holding their child's attention long enough to teach. I have a 6 yr old niece who has DS, her speech is limited (she speaks, but her words aren't clear enough for a stranger to understand) and when her mom attempts sentences she is more concerned with the letters than the words. It's as if she picks out smaller details rather than the larger picture. Is this typical of a DS child? What methods are useful to get her to sit still longer?
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Post by Chris too on Jan 9, 2008 8:24:30 GMT -5
One great way to get a child to sit still longer is to allow the child to do something else while sitting and listening. Like when you are reading a story, let the child sit at the table and color or play with play doh, but make sure the child is listening by asking silly questions ("Is there a green giraffe in this story?") and later on, straight questions ("Where did George go?"). For active learning - writing, etc - do the opposite: no distractions, but a constant happy banter about what she should be doing ("Oh look! I made a circle! You make a circle. Circle, circle, circle. We are making circles. My circles are red; you make blue circles. Good circles, round circles...") - silly me, I have to self-talk something like this when I'm distracted: "Ok Chris, you are going to the pantry to get the crackers. You are getting crackers. Crackers from the pantry. Just crackers..."  Since I haven't said it yet: Welcome to Uno mas! I hope these suggestions help. Chris too I don't have any advice about the speech. Doesn't the speech therapist give "homework"? Our therapists are always telling us what to work on and how to do it through the week, but then Stevie is still in early intervention rather than in the school system. I think it does change at that point. It sounds like your niece is just not getting the bigger picture yet. But she's only 6. I'm sure that with continued work in school & therapy, she will do fine. |
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Post by momofrussell on Jan 10, 2008 13:17:29 GMT -5
What is she using visually for her? Are the looking at pictures and/or letters/words and making sentences? Are they using a pencil and paper? Maybe switch up how it's executed, that might help.
And yes...WELCOME TO UNO!!!!
A.
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Post by jelanismom on Jan 22, 2008 9:18:44 GMT -5
Ditto Chris, perfect example...I do that all the time...repeat, and repeat specifying the word again and again in different ways as you said. I like holding a "prop" up to my face (as a former speech therapist used to do) because this way their attention is drawn towards the object you're naming and it's held at your cheek level where the child "sees" the object.
Then they associate the object by your cheek with the word formed on your lips/mouth and hear the word...it really draws Jelani's attention. I hold up a plastic circle or square to my nose and I make it a game...
I say "look! my nose is a circle! Oh no, my nose is a circle!!!" And then it's a square or a star, etc. He will giggle and grab a shape and I say wow! you have a circle! Then he holds it to his nose and says circle! Then I incorporate the color and say "red" circle, square whatever....
When I make it a game he really pays more attention because he is engaged in it and it's silly to see mommy's nose change shapes! lolol ;D
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