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No, I no longer like my foam mattress. We loved it for the first year. Now after just about three years, it hasn't held up and needs to be replaced. We won't be getting another foam mattress.
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TranquilMind
I find your patience admirable. You take a great deal of abuse on these types of threads and still manage to try explaining your position with charity.
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For most of my time as a homeschooler, I've had various older children attending private high school. It works okay, but the brick and mortar school schedule affected our homeschool schedule on a daily basis. It determines our school time each day and sets our homeschool calendar, in addition to taking time in the evening for various b&m school related activities like teacher conferences, volunteering, fund raising, homework help, etc. My ds in high school recently decided to come back to homeschooling. I'm thrilled by my new found freedom!
On the positive side for homeschooling and sending a child to school, it helps prevent some irrational fantasies about life being easier if we put our homeschooled children in school. It's not really easier--it's just different. It takes a different kind of energy to coordinate a child's education with teachers and schools.
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I'd tell my child that if she has the internal body parts to potentially carry a baby at some point in the future, then she's female and if he has the external body parts characteristic of males, he's a male. Being male or female doesn't really isn't about liking pink sparkly tutus vs. trucks. Being male or female is not a mental thing--it's a physical characteristic that relates to body parts necessary for human reproduction. Since a very young child is not physically capable of reproduction, the young child has not yet been hit with the hormones that will result in secondary sex characteristics in the future.
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I don't every year, but I got it this year. My arm that got the shot really felt weak and achy the next day, like just my arm had a bad case of the flu. I couldn't lift it above my head without it hurting. Ouch!
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I love this board! I truly appreciate all the wonderful posters here who share their wisdom and experience along with prayers, support and well-wishes. You help me sometimes when I just write out a post without actually posting it--because as I write, I clarify my thoughts and can imagine what some of you might tell me. :D
May you all have a Happy 2015! :cheers2: :party: :cheers2:
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Do children with lisps have difficulty pronouncing only sibilant sounds?(Are sibilant sounds the main/ only problem they face?)
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Do children with lisps feel less confident speaking? If yes, why? (Is is because of their inability to pronounce sibilant sounds?)
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Does speech therapy also involve building confidence or is it just focused on articulation?
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How is a child's confidence built during therapy?
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What is the most common age group when children develop lisps?
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If the answer given is different from the lit review (from when they start speaking to 7 years old), we have to clarify if it is because of the cultural differences, different context.
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Does cultural difference affect the age/ frequency of children developing lisps?
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Are different methods of speech therapy used for children in different age groups?
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If different methods are used, what is the most effective method?
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Are different methods employed for different genders?
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Are there any literature written specially for children with lisps?
Thanks!!
I had a lisp as a child that was corrected with the help of an slp. One of mine had a lisp that I corrected and my youngest still has a lisp, so I'll answer these based on my experience.
1) Depends on the child. As I understand it, the term "lisp" relates to /s/ and /z/ sounds, but a person can have problems in those areas and other areas too.
2) Again, it depends. Lisps are fairly common for young children, so I doubt that it affects their confidence. In earlier shows of the 70's tv show The Brady Bunch, Cindy Brady spoke with a lisp-- which had a certain charm. However, as the child grows, lisps are no longer "cute". They most certain might cause embarrassment in an older child or adolescent. When as an adult I heard another adult woman speaking with a lisp, I felt a wave of gratitude towards my mother for having taken me to speech therapy.
3) Rather than "developing a lisp", it seems that lisps are normal but then at some point become a failure to continue normal speech progression. There are different kinds of lisps and some are developmentally normal, while others are "off course". (When remediating lisps, it important not to take a child off the normal course of development into some other form of lisp.) Children loose their baby teeth and grown adult teeth, so a lisp may be a temporary problem. When I first took my dd for a slp evaluation for her lisp, both her top two front teeth were loose. The slp suggested waiting until after they'd grown in to see if the problem was still there. (It was, and so we corrected it then.) Now my 5 yo has loose teeth, and while she spoke with a lisp before they got loose, her lisp is different now.
A good book that I found helpful was "Frontal Lisp, Lateral Lisps" by Pam Marshall. It was written for therapists, not for children. That book would be a good resource to answer some of your questions.
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Another "intersting choice": to blame all police for "institutional racism" in connection to the previous deaths in Fergason and NY that were examined by a grand jury, which started these anti - police protests in the first place. This police assassination did not happen in a vacuum.I never saw the tgread about the tragic murder of the officers.
Blaming the mayor and protesters for their unnecessary and horrific assassination and not the crazed evile shooter is .... An interesting choice
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(((hugs)))
My relationship with my MIL improved dramatically after my FIL passed away. My husband now deals with his mother instead of hanging out with his dad and leaving me to deal with his mother.
As my oldest is engaged, I'm now growing sensitive to MIL-DIL relationships from the other side. I wonder if a large contribution to MIL problem stems from sons that don't want to spend time with their own moms. I would not have thought my husband or FIL was the problem between my MIL and me, but now that FIL is gone MIL and I get along fine. I've seen the same with another close friend who had a truly terrible relationship with her MIL until her FIL passed away.
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Might not some of the police believe the mayor is partly responsible for these deaths? They are grieving the intentional killing of two of their own by an anti - police protester. Grief can be expressed in many ways--including blaming someone like the mayor for what he did and did not do.
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Sometimes we do, but mostly we don't. Last year I was on top of giving homemade treats out as gifts. They were relatively inexpensive to make, but would have been a lot if they'd come from a bakery. This year I remembered when it was too late to do it.
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Pop Tarts. Pop Tarts in the stockings were a huge hit. Our stockings contain maybe a few toys, but are mostly filled with edibles that I won't typically buy. Things like individual packs of cocoa, Goldfish, Teddy Grahams, (in addition to the usual candy canes, oranges and chocolate) can be found here most every Christmas morning. This year, Santa added a couple packs of Pop Tarts.
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I would say it's the time of year... that it's just winter that makes me all gloom and doom, and I need more vitamin D.....
... Any ideas? How to become human again? :p
You wrote that on the darkest day of the year. Read the book Winter Blues by Dr. Norman Rosenthal. I made numerous changes to my life after reading that book. Winter Blues is sometimes bad enough to earn the more clinical diagnosis of Seasonal Affective Disorder. There are changes that one can do for her life to make winter more bearable.
I make myself go outside every day to ward off the winter blues. Taking a short walk even when it's sub zero helps me tremendously. I sit by the window in the sunlight. I got a lamp that was recommended in the book to increase my exposure to light. There are other ideas in the book, and I can't recall all of them right now. January and February are usually harder months for me--and I pull out the book "Winter Blues" for ideas almost every winter.
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I was most touched by the bolded part that I quoted from the article, "...he was most touched by his struggling math class. 'I saw that my kids had been told they were stupid and failures, but I saw so much potential in them,' Holman said. They've never been given the time to master a concept through multiple tries."
Thank you for sharing that article. It may be preaching to the choir, but even the choir sometimes needs to hear some good preaching. :)
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I'll add myself into the group hug. :grouphug:
May I ask why you decided to ditch Barton if you were just starting to get in the groove on that only to now feel overwhelmed with this new approach? I used to add lots of other remediation stuff in addition to Barton. I took other O-G training too (via the internet) and read multiple teacher training manuals. Most things I added were helpful and useful, but as I continued through Barton, I discover some of what I added we eventually covered with Barton. The more training from sources outside Barton I got, the more I saw that some of the "Barton things" that I previously just did because they were in the Barton script made great sense. While remediating dyslexia (and dysgraphia and all the other "dyses" and language/auditory processing problems) is never really "easy", creating your own Orton-Gillingham lessons plans sounds like a more difficult approach. I don't mean that to sound critical, because I admire you for trying to do it! But what your wrote definitely sounds exhausting! I can see why you'd feel overwhelmed!
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One thing I am finding frustrating is that LMB does no training, apparently, for LiPS. I really think my friend's kid needs LiPS. I had suggested she see if she could go through a training seminar since there are at least two centers in different cities she could drive to but neither one of us could find where they do one, anywhere. There are some for SS and V/V but not LiPS. She just does not want to work strictly off a manual. She has no background in teaching her kids and no confidence in her ability to do so without some sort of training. I wonder why there is no training for LiPS?
They offer LiPS training. It's a longer training process ( 3 days vs 2 days for their other programs) and they don't offer it each and every time, (which is true for some of their other programs as well.) The training sessions located by their main offices in San Luis Obispo usually include it, as well as several other locations. If your friend is looking in the Midwest, there's one in Kansas City March 25-27, 2015 and several other places. The earliest seems to be in Washington in January. It's not so easy to find the training workshops on their website, but if you want to look for it, go to lindamoodbell.com and click on professional development. Then click on "scheduled workshops" towards the bottom and start scanning through the workshop locations. Click on those to see if the LiPS training is offered at that time. If it's offered the LiPS program is shown in a gold box under "available workshops".
I would love to go to their formal training sessions, but I'm already past needing that for teaching my son. If it had been nearby me when I needed it, I'd have done it. I've considered it a lot. If I ever decide to tutor professionally, I'd be able to justify spending the money. It's just hard as a homeschooler because it's hard to homeschool while travelling for professional development workshops.
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I'm excited to share with my friends on this board that......
My 16 year old is coming back home for school!
:party:
We've got to re-organize our classroom and find a different routine to accommodate this big change. Right now we have books and various other homeschool materials everywhere in a joyful chaos! I'll be working late into the night for the next few days to re-establish order.
I'm so very, very delighted about this decision!
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One more thought came to me: you mentioned you're sick. Some of the worst academic days for my ds proceed a cold. His first symptom of an illness to show is "brain fog". We experience those incredibly discouraging days when he forgets many of the things we've worked hard for him to learn and just can't seem to retain new information. I worry and I fret. Then a few days later it's clear that he's physically ill. Once he recovers from the cold, the "brain fog" lifts. He's still dyslexic when he's over his cold, but it's easier to remediate and otherwise manage his dyslexia.
I mention that to encourage you that maybe his retention of the LiPS work your mother did with him is buried in his brain somewhere and things will go better when your household is over this cold. You were sick on Saturday when you did Barton with him and experienced more difficulty than normal. Maybe he wasn't at 100% of his normal either.
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There was a thread a few years back from a woman (in Australia?) who temporarily moved to another city in order for her daughter to attend a Lindamood-Bell center. She blogged about her wonderful experience. I love LMB products. I like the theory behind what goes into them. But I wasn't impressed when I spoke to the director at the center nearest my home (which wasn't close), which the major reason I did LiPS at home on my own with the Lindamood-Bell materials.
I suspect that the experience varies from one center to another, and can even vary within the same center depending on the persons doing the tutoring.
Before you judge LMB centers too harshly, keep in mind the cost of private tutoring is usually fairly expensive at any tutoring chain, and the cost of private tutoring is usually far above what the tutors make. My future daughter-in-law and my neighbor are teachers and both have tutored over the summer at a different national tutoring chain. One was hired straight out of college before she had her teaching credentials, and neither have degrees and experiences or training for working with learning disabilities. The center really didn't even train their tutors.
One tutor center I called on test prep for the ACT and they charge $75 per hour for one-on-one instruction and can't tell me how many hours a week they'll recommend without the testing, (which is a few hundred dollars.) That was just for ACT prep with no mention of any learning disabilities. So, while LMB centers may charge a lot of money, just about every tutoring service costs significant amounts of money.
If you compare LMB to the cost of private speech therapy (which is how I'd compare portions of LiPS) without insurance coverage, those slp clinics charge far more than Lindamood-Bell. I was frustrated when I brought my dd to a slp and she set my dd up on a computer to play a game to find similar sounds. Really--$300/hr to play a computer game? After just a few sessions what I learned was that I was pushing my dd too hard with the work I asked from her at home. The evaluation was helpful because I saw where my dd stood compared to others her same age, and I appreciated having a professional I could talk with about my concerns, but I decided to not pursue further slp because I could do similar work at home with my dd with the materials I already own.
So, bottom line---a dedicated mom who is doing a somewhat decent job of tutoring her learning disabled child is worth far more than you realized! We should all go buy ourselves a nice box of chocolates as teacher/tutor gifts for Christmas.
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From what you describe, he may not even pass the Barton student screen-- and if that was the case he wouldn't be ready for Barton even if you wanted to use it with him. Some people need the earlier portion Lindamood-Bell's LiPS program before they can start Barton. Depending on which portion(s) of the student screen they fail, the student may need a different program. I'm most familiar with LiPS as that's why my child needed. LiPS teaches how the specific sounds are produced, and it was developed by a speech therapist. I'd suggest you look at that and see if it might be of benefit. The sensory skills in LiPS primarily starts with feeling what's going on with the tongue, jaw, lips and vocal cords when producing various letter sounds. It uses mouth pictures and various other materials, eventually replacing the mouth pictures with letter tiles. Maybe that's too much motor planning tasks, but it's motor planning involving the muscles used in speech. Some speech therapists use LiPS or a similar approach as speech therapy.
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I want to add that I'm incredibly impressed with you for taking on children with disabilities. May God bless you abundantly!
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I don't have any suggestions for the audiologist question you asked, One Step, but I have a suggestions on how to get him to recognize the extra sound he's added.
Both of the examples of added sounds in the original post were extra /n/ sounds. Ask him to plug his nose. (Or gently hold it for him.) The /n/ sound comes out through the nose and won't escape properly if his nose is plugged. That could help him notice where he's adding the extra /n/ sound. M sounds and /ng/ work the same way--by escaping through the nose. It's easier to physically hear and feel where they are in a word if the nose is plugged.
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Are you planning to homeschool him for pre-school? You wrote you were spending more money than you could afford on this pre-school, so think of how the money could be put to better use.
Does anyone homeschool high school without the help of outside or online classes?
in High School and Self-Education Board
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My high school children won't be taking any online or co-op classes for any academic subjects this year.
I explored a couple of local co-ops and even today just looked again at a schedule of spring classes again. We're friends with families involved in them, and part of me wants to do them just so my kids will see their friends. But the materials and classes just don't seem like a good fit for my kids. The math program I specifically didn't like. Instead of co-ops or online classes, we have high school materials that really excite us.