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Every child really is different. If (when?) you get more information about the particular learning issues he has it might guide you in selecting a program. There are things (like LindaMood Bell) that work on comprehension for instance. I think lack of visualizing while reading and comprehension issues is relatively common on the spectrum. We're targeting visual spatial stuff with my son right now to try to help with math issues. Basically, I'd try to look at the learning issues and make selections related to that on their own in making decisions. Then in areas like autism social issues I selected programs (RDI for us) that addressed those.
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http://www.amazon.com/Pencil-Grip-Crossover-Ergonomic-Metallic/dp/B001SN8HPI This is what I got. It seems too big for a true tripod for him--his middle finger seems really awkward when he tries to place it "correctly" and he goes back to putting it in front of the first finger. I'm thinking this is worse than his regular grip maybe but I don't know why it doesn't seem to work for his hands comfortably. He really hates it too and from the reviews I thought it would feel comfortable for him. Maybe it's an adjustment. Would it help someone help me if I tried to post a picture?
Do you/would have the child use a grip exclusively or just in the context of school? What if he's drawing on his own?
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I got one of these for my kiddo who is six with a poor grip (thumb crossing among other issues). I'm confused. He puts the thumb on one side and then the two first fingers are crowded on the other side--his index essentially right behind his middle finger. Is that correct? It looks awkward and I'm wondering if his fingers are just too small to use it. It seems like the middle finger should be to the side of the index but that's a long stretch for my fingers let alone his. I can try to link a picture.
He also hates it. Should I just have him use it for handwriting practice and let him do whatever the rest of the day?
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Phonics Road users do you think there would be a problem or confusion if I teach my kids all the phonograms and they are reading before we are able start Phonics Road 1?
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Because of food allergy restictions that include yours I've really had to struggle to make sure my kids get enough calories. You also want them to have enough carbs calories for energy and to maintain weight--that's important for kids. Make sure it's not low fat because fat has the most calories per gram. Coconut oil might be a good fat if you all like it but Tropical Traditions is the only nut trace free coconut oil source.
Basically, I had to calorie count my kids to make sure we got in range so they didn't lose weight (or stop gaining was what we had).
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I would keep her. She'll be safer inside. Assuming the other cat is indoors (?) I'd keep this one inside too. The cats may take a while but they will adjust to each other. Most likely they'll tolerate each other but you never know--some become friendly.
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I am not sure how to "measure" how much a baby is taking in when I breastfeed. Is it length of time that they nurse? Maybe I should talk to a lactation consultant. I have noticed with this baby that his head flops around a lot. You would think that with baby 6 I would notice whether this was normal but it is all a blur. when he lays in his carseat his head will lay all the way back. Looks very uncomfortable. I don't want to start nitpicking things wrong but I don't know. Thanks for you info.
It's easiest (and most accurate) if you enlist the help of a lactation consultant. Your hospital should have one and in major areas you'll have more options than that. But essentially they weigh the baby before and after nursing with a special scale and can determine intake from that. You will get further with figuring out what is wrong if you have the information.
I don't know that I would have known my son was low tone except that I had a typical tone baby to also hold. One description of low tone is "like holding a sack of potatoes" and though my son was not to that extent he did feel different. He was slow with head control and other milestones as well.
:grouphug: This may be something as simple as intake.
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One of my boys was failure to thrive. If you're nursing have you met with a lactation consultant to monitor how much he's taking in? One of the first things the specialists wanted from us was a record of intake to rule that part out. So intake (however it's happening) is important for you to determine if you haven't already. For my son it was a combination of low muscle tone (took a long time to determine the cause for that) and severe GERD. I know it's hard to determine so young but babies with low tone are different to hold than other babies. They just don't "help" with support like a typical tone baby does.
My other child had a murmer that was not a big deal (innocent). At his last appointment (six years) he still had it. We did have it checked with an echo at one point. Easy test if the specialist does that test.
I'm so sorry about your mother's choices. How sad for everyone.
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I'm loving the Karyn Henley materials. http://karynhenley.com/site_pages/curriculum_new.htm#anch_1_2_FND They are weekly though so I spread them out and supplement with bible stories and related. LHTH goes through the bible and I love The Singing Bible CD they recommend. I love the Jesus Bible Storybook.
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(grandparent/camp counselor). Our pediatrician says to keep one in the car as well as one in the house always. (I have never gotten around to putting one in our car though.)
-Kathy
I'm following this thread for ideas for my six year old. I give the pack to an adult when he's not with me but soon we do need to transition.
Kathy, I like your options!
Your pediatrician is giving poor advice. They are very temperature sensitive (you can read in the materials that come with them) so car storage makes them useless. In fact, I've had to replace them because I accidentally left them in the car more than once.
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I'm sure it was awesome.
Do you routinely take that approach with tornadoes? I'm guessing you live where you see a lot of them to have that type of attitude toward them. I know that affects thoughts and we all take risks we think are reasonable. I wouldn't. Having lived through one where many others weren't as fortunate I know all it takes is a tree limb flying not to mention lightening risks (the roof?). I take them entirely seriously.
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OP, I completely understand your concern. Because of some "issues" in my own childhood views of God it's important to me that my kids don't have fear as their basis for following God. It seems a lot of curriculums and kid devotionals I see recommended so much are heavy on that angle--obedience, God as a judge, etc. I feel the bent we (as Western Christians) have is a little clouded sometimes and we don't give the whole picture--even the whole picture of the beauty of the atonement/Christ's sacrifice for example. That unbalanced/less than whole view clouds some teaching of old testament as well. What I did with LHTH is used my own bible that I liked better. The Beginners Bible by Karyn Henley (this is an older version/author with a similar name as a same title, same publisher bible that I didn't want/I had to get it 2nd hand--well worth it) was what I mainly used. Afterward I discovered the Jesus Storybook Bible someone mentioned upthread. I responded just to strongly encourage you to get it. It helped me see how Jesus is woven throughout and you'll love reading it to your kids. Please consider getting it! I'm doing Karen Henley bible materials with them now too and enjoying that.
I'm studying some Kay Arthur studies and getting so much out of them. A quote: Some of us are more familiar with the New Testament than the Old, but it's in the Old Testament that God introduces Himself....It's in the Old Testament that we develop our Understanding of God." And I am seeing the truth in what she wrote! I'm finding such beauty. I think Western Christianity as a whole has a little bit of an issue with seeing things from one side and the one side is often slanted too far in one or the other direction. There isn't enough balance. I'm realizing that more and more. I do want to give my kids a true and whole view of God as He is and I really don't think we can do that without the Old Testament. So I encourage you to find a way to cover it in balance and truth with them at some point (start with yourself--the Kay Arthur studies are really, really good and I think you'd enjoy them).
If you don't do anything else I've mentioned I really encourage you to get the Jesus Storybook Bible!
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Singulair is the only thing that helped my son enough (he also takes zyrtec and we tried every other med short of steroids with him). Without singulair he'd need steriods and he tolerates singulair well/fine. I just wanted to mention because I was so afraid to try it and I'm glad we did.
Coughing enough to vomit can be pertussis which can and does hang on and on.
Our pulmonologist does a test with a blow, measure output, albuterol, blow again after albuterol takes effect. My son's output was 65% better and that was without active asthma at the time. They can't do that test with a preschool or toddler so often it's symptom diagnosed. My son's trigger when young was respiratory infections like colds. As he got older it was allergies. Singulair helped in both cases.
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Maybe I'm confused/not hearing differences but third sound of a and first/short sound of o sound alike to me when I say them and when I listen to them here as well. http://homepage.mac.com/ashleya/villa/spaldingmp3.html
We're not using AAS though.
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Make it enjoyable! She so young. Making reading dreaded is far worse than just dropping it.
I See Sam is absolutely terrific for things like this. The books are gentle and really fun to read. You'll both laugh at the stories.
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Another recommendation for Skip Count Kid--I have a mix of bible and regular from them (I downloaded rather than bought the CD) and both are terrific.
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5:30!! Ugh. :grouphug:
I don't think you can change a true wired night owl but you can set habits.
Melatonin can be your friend in adjusting. So can bright morning sun exposure and a consistent wake time. That said one of mine just gets up earlier and earlier when he's tired so he has to be rested and I wouldn't dare wake him. If they have light coming in at that time in the morning and are close to their normal allotment of sleep I think it's going to be tough. It might be easier to adjust them when the days are shorter.
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Thanks everyone for the great ideas!
I think a timer might help. I don't know why I didn't think of that! He transitions poorly to eating or anything really not just school so the whole day might go easier. I'm also going to try either a pictorial type schedule or (similarly) workboxes I think. His play doesn't need toys so I can't really start school before he plays--he's driving a train in his imagination before his feet hit the floor in the morning. I could have him earn time to look at train pictures online for each box. I just feel uncertain about tying external reward to school. Is that silly?
He may indeed force me to be more scheduled and organized but I hope a flow with some visual something along with the timer to give him warning for transitioning will be enough.
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I've got a child (he's "spectrumy") who absolutely hates to stop what he's doing to do anything else. He would spend all day thinking and talking about trains if he could and it makes my stomach knot up when I'm ready to ask him to do something school wise. The more "things" I add the more difficult this is. He's usually ok once we start in most areas but the starting is major resistance. As we get older no matter what programs I do I can't hit them all in one transition. Some really need revisited throughout the day to go ideally.
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You might try this on the special needs section of the board.
Orton Gillingham is the most widely accepted (and researched) treatment for dyslexia. Commonly used programs for dyslexia are Barton (resell is very good but the levels are costly--I think most pay for the next level selling the previous) and Wilson (not sure how that one works) but there are others as well and I believe the first website below has a list of them and I'm sure the yahoo group below does. These might be extremely helpful:
along with the WTM special needs board here and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HeartofReading/?yguid=200541244
She can do a dyslexia program less expensively with time and effort on her part if she has to do that. The links above can help with those options.
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What I found in my research was that two hot dryer cycles (two, high heat) will kill them. A regular wash and dry cycle won't.
I would not bring the luggage in. I would wash the clothes he's wearing and packed immediately as above and have him shower immediately.
Shoes are a potential issue too. Anything you can't dry on hot can be frozen but it takes quite a while to kill them freezing.
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I'm no expert as we're working toward PR1 until I can afford it but I've had a peek. I do think at the first level the advantage to SWR would be that it's more "how to" for you and the rule tunes. The rule tunes are what I can't do myself but mostly I want to have what I need to go to level 2 and beyond. I like that level 2 and beyond includes all I need for language arts done well. I think I can cover the level 1 material on my own (without rule tunes/I can still cover it well) but Beers told me I needed the building codes and word lists to go onto level 2.
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:grouphug: I will pray for your husband, you, the kids, the entire family.
I've had a lot of cancer in my family but not myself or my husband. Some outcomes have been amazing with some initially bad prognosis and all those were with clinical trials. I imagine your husbands doctor has or will speak with you about that possibility. Let God guide but I will say that I spoke with many people who wished they had done clinical trials from the outset and a few who couldn't participate in some because they had tried standard treatments first that made them ineligible at the time of enrollment.
It may be helpful to have someone else with you for major appointments that will be able to think clearly, ask questions, take notes. It's very hard to absorb and remember what the doctor is saying, remember to ask questions you had, etc. when you're carrying all the emotion as either the patient or the loved one. My son has a serious medical condition and if I couldn't have someone with me to take notes I would tape record the appointments.
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I had multiple (4) early miscarriages. My boys are a progesterone supplemented pregnancy via an reproductive endocronologist. It certainly can be a cause of early miscarriage and should be suspected in repeat miscarriages and can help keep a pregnancy if that is the cause.
WWYD? One twin is really far behind in reading!
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With my twins I'm thinking it would be easier on the "sensitive to not doing everything perfect" one to use a different curriculum from his brother. I don't know what you're using or where he is but I'd consider a set up that allowed for no comparison, started where he was (so he feels successful and competent), and moved slowly if you think he needs a slow and deliberate pace.