PuddleJumper1 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 I may wind up investing in this program. I've forwarded the information to our BCBA to see what she thinks about my son using it. http://www.mayer-johnson.com/all-reading-curriculum/ Thanks so much for sharing this! Looks wonderful and is right on track with what we need for ds. Gonna start saving my pennies now :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happycc Posted November 6, 2016 Author Share Posted November 6, 2016 Guess what?! My child is speaking!!! We had no speech therapy for a year and just did ASL and ABA which combined speech and signs. One caveat...intelligibility is a bit of a factor still. Also his sounds are not always consistent. Sometimes the sounds comes out perfectly and we understand his sentence. Other times we are like WHAT?!With that we ask him to sign it to give us a clue on what he is saying. Other times he gestures it or he goes and finds a toy or item or an icon on my cell phone text message to represent a word he is trying to get out. He has great understanding of what is being said. And his grammar is getting there. Sometimes it sounds kind of like ASL grammar. Ex. ball blue catch instead of catch the blue ball for example. Our next step is to start doing harder work. Having more deeper conversations and also sequencing of stories like narration. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookbard Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 Wonderful news! I think the process you used is amazing - immersing the whole family in ASL. Thank you for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happycc Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share Posted May 4, 2017 (edited) Hi everyone: So now that my son is speaking, he still has severe apraxia that makes understanding him difficult and requires a lot of context. So we still have him sign to us when he is stuck. He starts TK September and I will be homeschooling him. We had him accessed back in Dec by Northern Diagnostic Center in Fremont and they wanted to drop the Autism diagnosis and say he just has Apraxia. I think we will just keep the autism diagnosis until we get back to the Kaiser ASD clinic and just add the Apraxia to it. I am stressed about the whole reading process. We stopped ABA back in January. I just got sick of it. I needed a break. He does get speech from school district and vendor of Kaiser. SO today I started using: Halo-Soma http://www.halo-soma.org/main.php?sess_id=cb1044d6aea5cb73503b1109356a5dce We did it on the floor as he was having aversions to the table. He picked this up quickly and excitedly. He was fine as long as he liked the topics which are ice cream, candy and minecraft. I need help writing lessons for these. Anyone wanna help? Also I just ordered Oral Cued Reading and spoke with the wonderful speech therapist and she gave me some great tips: There is no way he is ready for any type of phonemic awareness stuff so we will start with this method. I am excited to try their eye tracker for his older siblings too. http://yakketyakslp.com/Cued_Oral_Reading.html Finally would like a review on this: Speech EZ https://www.speech-ez.com/ Has anyone tried any of these? Edited May 4, 2017 by happycc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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