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  1. Well, perusing the forums and saw this. My dd is 11 in 2 wks. She reads now. But BOY does she have problems--very hard to get things in her memory. Yet she can chant grammar lists or learn songs, quick. Still doesnt know what Im saying until the 4th time repeating it...ok, not always, but waaaaay too often. We looked into her executive functioning also but it was too pricey to continue. Shes got SPD, VPD, APD. What else can I label her with? Sweet and adorable, except when shes frustrated, which is often. Then we call her Ginna (our local nuke plant, think Chernobyl). :0
  2. Yes, that's it! And I found out the other book is The Latin-Centered Curr by Campbell. I dont want it if I cant get it on Kindle tho. Dang. These authors that aren't on Kindle are gonna make me nuts lol Ok, I already am, with my huge memory issues :p Thanx for your help!
  3. Is this that book that gives the WHY or is the other book (can't remember the name) the one that is more practical? And while I"m asking---where have I seen this? I used to know where to buy it when I was ready to read it; not any longer... Sorry I have a bad case of alzheimer's tonite and just know I want to read the blasted book(s) now and can't find them on Memoria Press, at Circe Institute, Veritas Press, here at Peace Hill, in Rainbow Resource catalog, ANYwhere :(
  4. especially if college level writing is the goal, being able to write WELL very EASILY (hence, Writing with Ease series and so on) is the key. Having the how-to, the grammar of writing down b4 u enter the sacred halls of higher learning will put u light yrs ahead of ur peers. u can master the info and almost conversationally do your papers. at least the ease of it, not the tone of it. Its from thousands of pieces of compositions you've dun for the 12 yrs preceeding. u write effortlessly and ur grammar is correct naturally, ur mechanics are flawless. u can concentrate on the material ur learning and expressing that learning to ur teacher in composition. no matter what field u enter. now science lab reports are in a class of "writing" all their own. they have nothing to do with reality and a trained monkey cud be taught to do it. u don't think; u follow precise parameters...there is a convention as to whether ur graphs can have a border around them, for goodness sakes! good teachers demand it of their freshman students and thru writing 4 or 5 a semester u get better, even if it's still stilted and painful to the reader lol. my gen biol teacher had us use an excellent guide to writing biol lab reports and basically told us EXACTLY what to write for the first 2 or 3 reports. Some students were too stupid to take notes during said informative sessions, but if u did, it was an auto A <duh>. I also took it upon myself to visit her b4 each report and get input or needed help (I officially hate Excel now). LIke a mom guiding a student thru yrs of practice till its automated, the college prof was willing to do this, albeit on a shortened timeline. I had to learn QUICK. im a self learner and have studied learning a lot in my yrs of HSling now (over 25 yrs) so I did it, but any motivated young adult shud be able to handle it too---shoot theyre not fighting senility from old age at the same time lol. a better use of time, once u get ur degree is to write for the layperson so ur info can spread to the masses. that means interesting & provocative, yet annotated; something that u cud learn in the first 12 yrs when HSled!
  5. Alphaphonics! and use Phonics for Reading and Spelling (by B. Detmer found at RainbowResource.com) instead of Writing Road to Reading <ugh> or even Spell to Read and Write. Ph4R&Sp is much more HSler friendly. All in one book with flowcharts for each grade. Both are ageless in methodology. I would love to teach illiterate adults or be a TESOL teacher and use Alphaphonics. Don Potts site is WOW. Links to all kinds of crazy English language stuff too. LOVE THAT SITE.
  6. I read a bunch of these Montessori classics back when my now 8yo was a toddler. Thot it sounded great and made a lot of materials for her myself. Life happened then for a few yrs and then I went back to other methodologies once I got back to intense HSling. We haven't don't a lot of grammar period still. She is severely challenged in reading as it happens. I researched hours online and studied intently the curricula of Montessori-teacher schools and the things they can make themselves. Like miquon math, they want u to make ur own teachers edition so u really get it. I just didn't have the time and money (little tho it would be) to do it. Winston grammar is a Montessori-outlook in my opinion (ive used it with other children) and Right Start math is by a Montessori teacher too. Mommy Its A Renoir is art study for little kids by a Montessori teacher too.
  7. what do u do for grammar after 4th grade? I see no plans to write a grammar texts for after 4th grade either. Do Jessie and Susan just think the Rod & Staff English bks are good and we should use those thru high school? Or at least 8th grade...im not sure grammar in high school is necessary after 8 yrs of formal study b4hand!
  8. Dianne Craft has not been mentioned at all in the posts. Her therapy is done at home by the parents. Used with auditory & visual processing issues and dysgraphia--hates to compose or even copy from a board or book. I am currently using it. the CVPD eye dr we went to did the eval, said yep shes got issues and then wont get back to me now. Becuz I have no way to pay for therapy lol. An audiologist told me to get a CAPD also. Either way tho, after im done with the visual therapy, ill do the auditory exercises. Getting a CAPD eval is quite difficult around here. Understanding exactly wat is going on with processing disorders, I know why my dd can sound out cat in the same sentence, slowly and painfully. She never puts anything in her memory. Shes 8 and has a reading word memory of about ten words. The only thing that will work is Dianne Crafts method, or something like it. We only use Orton-Gillingham phonics (Writing road to reading style) here. It's not a reading methodology issue. Her brain is incapable of learning to read by conventional methods. we are fixing that, ideally. I have high hopes this will actually retrain her brain to WORK.
  9. I used MM with my 3 older kids, all the way thru. Then we went into the Key To books, by the same authors. We went to Saxon 65 after that while I toyed around with writing a homeschool friendly math curr at least to Alg 1, using the rods...then I discovered MUS. Voíla, someone had beat me to it lol I am using MM again with my younger ones, BUT then I decided to get Beta MUS for my 8yo as I had been inconsistent with her, due to work pressures, and wanted to just have something easy to not have to think about. My youngest is going to finish up the MM bks I have still and then she's going into MUS also. SOOO much easier. I LOVE MM, but unless u have just one kid, who loves math btw, the MUS is just fine. My oldest used MM as a discovery math lab, the other 2 older kids, didn't discover anything; they hated math thru high school. My 2nd oldest, in fact, in college, was traumatized by the 2 math courses she had to take. She is linguistically-gifted, but math aint her forte. I hated math in school also. I learned A TON using MM. But I think I wud have learnt it thru MUS and its so much easier day to day.
  10. update: she seems to be pretty consistently reading the Bob bks. (very simple bks). It seems tortuous to me sounding out SAT or BLOP just about every time, but she's not complaining and even enjoying the stories. reads 3 bks at a time. usually corrects herself with her <b> & <d> reversals. but her visual memory seems to be wat is lacking, Tremendously. I dont teach sight words at all, but we do (un-aware) use our memory for many words wen we read. the consistency is wats encouraging to me. she knows all the phonograms if u hold up the cards and shes been blending letters into words since age 4 or 5...but she cant read still...??? maybe the age thing will work with her...she'll be 8.5yo Dec 9th <crossingfingers>
  11. HA! my oldest daughter hears colors...to start her many "differences" lol Wudnt it be sumthing if this dd also had sum synethesia going on too? then again, my oldest dd read quickly...
  12. <<DD 2 Honestly? Watching too much Elmo on my phone.>> :rofl: been there, dun that! well it was 20 yrs ago, so it Mr Rogers and Captain Kangaroo on PBS but... wat helped us was to assign someone to do stuff with her while i was with another kid or showering, etc. bingo! i had a rotating schedule of who was with me for an allotted time and who was with her and who working alone. ...a la Managers of Their Homes...but b4 it came out lol
  13. Sara in AZ--isnt Dianne amazing?? she HSled her son and then went into institutional skl to teach remedial students for the last 25 yrs. so shes on it! lol she actually RESOLVES the neurological issues, not just teaches them coping strategies. TRUE FREEDOM to go on to LEARN!
  14. yes going to get some transparencies down at staples and try them. the book(s) dianne offers online are also much less expensive than therapy by an paid employee.
  15. now i am starting to wonder if the COVD dr said she doesnt need vision therapy as its soooo expensive that i bet its just that medicaid wont cover it :( dianne craft says vision therapy is wonderful but unaffordable for most families. if u cud do her program and vision therapy, shes says all the better. makes one wonder, eh?
  16. yes, Dianne crafts site seems very good...for anyone else wondering my dd is so difficult to pinpoint as she has very very few symptoms like ANYthing else ever listed under the 4 learning channels (or gates as Dianne calls them) she just cant friggin read. she crawled correctly, is very coordinated, happy and optimistic, she loves to write and learn, attends very well to task, spells not bad verbally or written (for wat shes been able to rly learn about phonics without being able to read--the two things are soo connected, if u cant practice the rules while u DEcode, its hard to have them wen u ENcode, but she DOES somewat --another reason I know she friggin smart), knows lots of history and science facts and is fine in math. so I ll be checking out the diannecraft.org today :)
  17. <<I'd suggest testing for CAPD which I think played the biggest issue in DDs struggles with learning to read.>> I think that's wat the COVD md did, was to test for those issues. or is this somewhere else who tests for that? he said to me the first visit that she had a processing problem with her visual input. but he just finished up the testing this Friday so I don't have his official report till prob next Friday. hes done nothing rly beyond glasses and some exercises -- that have dun nothing. no further visits for any kind of therapy.
  18. also found this wen I googled Irlen syndrome. if ur into scientific evidence published in peer-reviewed journals. I cant help that the AAP doesn't support it yet. this is the same organization that promoted the barbaric practice of male infant circumcision for a number of decades. my view of medical cronies is understandably dim :0 National and International Research StudiesThe Irlen Method and the efficacy of colored overlays and colored lenses has been the subject of over 100 research studies encompassing the disciplines of education, psychology, and medicine. To date, more than 60 of these studies supporting the use of colored overlays and lenses to treat the perceptual processing difficulties associated with Irlen Syndrome are published in peer-reviewed academic and scientific journals, including the Journal of Learning Disabilities, Australian Journal of Special Education, Perceptual and Motor Skills, Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, Journal of Research in Reading, and Behavioral Optometry among others. See a list of related journal articles >> A recent review of 62 studies published in peer-reviewed journals found 56 studies with positive findings, 45 with positive results for particular reading skills, and 11 showing improvements in accommodation facility, eye movements while reading, and reduced headaches/migraine. Independent research projects are ongoing at various universities in the United States, England, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, and New Zealand. Colored overlays are considered an approved accommodation for standardized tests by many states including California, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Nevada, and Oklahoma.
  19. <<The reason your doctor didn't suggest a COVD is because it is not an accepted part of mainstream medicine for most purposes.>> If wasn't accepted or standard procedure or whatever, Medicaid wud not pay for it, believe me! lol Medicaid pays for nothing they don't have to. Chiropractics has been accepted, as well as massage therapy, for a couple decades, with most insurances covering both. Not Medicaid tho. I was rly thinking Medicaid wud not pay for the COVD. But it does. AND there are COVD eye drs who actually TAKE Medicaid. A lot of specialists don't take it as they get paid a fraction wat they wud from other insurances.
  20. Jaden---I keep waiting for sight words to kick in even. but they don't. altho sight words is not true reading anyway. My dd has that disorder also, from wat the COVD can tell so far. I am a orthographics geek also (Orton-Gillingham, Spalding, Detmer) and use Alphaphonics to teach reading then use Detmer's Phonics for Reading & Spelling. I looked at, and rly longed to use, the Phonics Road but she wont sell it without the dvds and that makes the program completely obscenely priced. I'd like to use it only becuz transitioning into her Latin Road would be seamless. Phonics Road is just another HS version of Spalding and I like Detmer's that I use now. Whats funny is that the Orton-Gillingham method is recc'd to be used with these kids! So Im already doing all I can that way. I just want some progress as the COVD said to keep doing reading with her (we already read outloud lots or do bks/quality stories on tape lots). So I figured he thot she will make progress with the few things he gave me to do with her, directionality and setting table and such, along with her new glasses. Why he would he waste yet another month? He knows we HS and are doing it this summer also. Appt on Friday; maybe it'll be profitable, unlike the last appt.
  21. our library system charges a *DOLLAR* P.E.R. bk! even for libraries within our system. so this is quickly unaffordable.
  22. well its been a month since we saw the eye dr. he gave me a few exercises to do with her and glasses for her slight farsightedness. she's not making any progress. he's doing perceptual testing with her in a week (WHY we had to wait 5wks for the rest of the testing *IDK*) but I don't expect much more help from him. he said to just keep doing reading with her. can anyone give me suggestions for a reading specialist or something to read for me to teach her correctly? I am at my wits end. I can not get her to read --- fluently. she generally painstakingly sounds out bell, pat and mark, simple phonetic words. 2 syllable words are tough and she hates them. getting spelling/reading rules into her brain for her to pull up as needed is almost impossible. AND NOW MY 6YO IS STARTING TO LOSE HER READING ABIILITY ALSO copying older sister? same problem just not showing up till same age? idk, but im so tired of this :(
  23. yup i looked at the diagnostics evals and she can do all the WWE level 1 for sure. She'll prob run thru WWE2 and be into WWE3 by the New Year. Cool with me :)
  24. lol, this is how i HSled for almost 2 decades. 50-75 a yr. sometimes that was all for the 3 kids, not per kid...just wait till high skl levels--impossible just about, to HS on a budget. i just knew that they were getting better eds than institutional skl, regardless. and wat they werent getting was priceless. it made me rly work hard, true. but theyve all gone to college so i guess they were ok :)
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