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  1. Maybe check into Logic of English Foundations A. It starts with a lot of phonemic awareness activities and LOE Foundations uses quite a few games that involve movement. That helped with my kids who needed to move a lot.
  2. We are just about to get started with Equipping Minds and so I am going off just what I remember from all the training videos I saw. I agree with cbollin to skip it for now. I seem to recall listening to Carol mention once that you could skip some things for non-readers. I remember something specifically said about non-readers and that activity (stroop animals activity), but don't remember if I saw it in discussion on the DVD or the free YouTube videos where she had a free 8-week training session and some people asked questions that were at the in-person training. Carol Brown was very helpful the one time we did a zoom call with her. I wouldn't be afraid to call them if needed. Roses designed to have an online access to a video demonstration of each step for each activity along with tracking capabilities of where you are in each area. Once you have the teacher's manual and student book, it doesn't cost the $1000. It is $500-800 depending on whether you select to have 12 sessions with a trained therapist to get you started. I've looked at this in case I need help as we get started on this program. We were going to start this week, but too many got sick in our household. We'll pick it up once everyone is healthy again.
  3. Thank you. She does receive speech therapy. We finished updating the IEP this week and ended up keeping articulation and phonemic awareness on it and adding irregular past tense verb usage. I was just hoping to find material to also practice it at home. I don't know what the actual test was called, but she mentioned that DD only had 53% accuracy for her age, she struggled with some of the correct irregular past tense verb usage that 6 year olds should know, and it was enough that we could add it to the IEP. This fall they will start working on it, but I also am hoping to put some more focused effort into it with our school work at home. I did look at little at Easy Grammar and Daily Grams and thinking that maybe I should start at a lower level, but hopefully I can find someone local with a copy to look through it to decide if that would help. DD is also dyslexic and I don't know if that is impacting her grammar.
  4. Thanks. It actually came up in discussion with DD's SLP as she prepared to determine which tests to use in her evaluation. She went through one of her tests with DD.
  5. It's been a while since I've posted on here. I have a 10 yr old dyslexic whose grammar (correct usage of different verb tenses) scored low on recent IEP update testing. We do homeschool, but use the school for some services. Just correcting her grammar usage during conversation hasn't been enough. Do you know of any curriculum that target grammar tenses, not just other areas of grammar? Her reading is near a 3rd grade level, but I am fine reading through any material orally with her.
  6. We have liked Reading Horizons Discovery for younger kids and Reading Horizons Elevate for older kids. We also did a trial of Nessy, but my kids preferred Reading Horizons at the time so stuck with it. The initial year costs more, but to renew the subscription is about $50 for a year. It was good as a stand alone for one of my dyslexic kids after age 10 and it was good a supplement for another dyslexic kid.
  7. If you can swing the cost, you may want to consider the ROSES program with the Sound Therapy Program. I think that also comes with the Pyramid of Potential if I remember correctly. I ended up buying the DVD program, student workbook, and sound therapy program. However, I think having that weekly therapy session to get me going and keep me on track would have helped me get started sooner. I ordered it this fall after talking with Carol and watching her do an online evaluation with my 9 year old. DD9 is also in speech therapy and OT each week and we are doing Barton at home for the dyslexia. I watched the training, but got overwhelmed with life (I also have other kids that need help in other areas) and didn't implement it right away. We are just now getting back to a good routine after our break so plan to start on Monday. All that said, I would call their office and see what they recommend. Carol was very nice and helpful. By the way, it's late and I just saw your "as economically as possible" comment. The DVD training (slightly different than the free classes online) with the teacher's manual plus the student workbook is the most basic. The sound therapy program is expensive, but after discussing with Carol how it was supposed to work and help, she thought it would be very beneficial to my DD after discussing the situation with her. It made enough sense and I had talked with her about people they had helped enough, I went ahead and took her recommendation and purchased the sound therapy program as well. I would call their number and see what they recommend about the sound therapy program for your child and find out why they recommend it before purchasing it.
  8. I looked around some on you tube, but couldn't find a demonstration of the same integration exercise that PoP uses for the Palmar reflex. This is the closest to it, but this adds a few things, including the ball, to the exercise. I think the PoP sale ends today or tomorrow if you're still considering it. Also, the book the Symphony of Reflexes by Bonnie Brandes has additional reflexes and exercises listed if you want to know about more than the ones that Bloomberg's website lists. https://www.amazon.com/Symphony-Reflexes-Interventions-Development-Neurological/dp/150285502X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541136912&sr=8-1&keywords=symphony+of+reflexes I watched the Pyramid of Potential DVD recently, but don't think that DD will have enough control for some of the exercises, particularly the exercise she uses for the moro integration. I also have class material from the Brain and Sensory Foundations course by Move Play Thrive so may start with the suggested activities listed there to help DD build enough control to even do the basic exercises by PoP. That said, I've also heard of a father that was a PT by vocation and he integrated his DD's moro by startling her right before she went outside to play on toys. It's an interesting thought.
  9. That's great that your DD is trying a lot more veggies. I need to work with expanding the types of veggies my DDs eat better. I also think it's great that your DS 9 was able to recognize how much better he felt. I have actually done the AIP diet so I know how hard it is to not cheat. I have started it a couple times and would only make it a week or two before giving in and ruining the work I had started. I did make it about 6-8 weeks once on the AIP diet before morning sickness set in so bad that I didn't care what I ate as long as I kept it down. I share that just to say that I understand the difficulty in following this diet without cheating. I am also preparing to start the AIP or a modification of it again to bring down my inflammation markers on some blood work. I know you really want to add back more foods after just 2 weeks of not cheating, but I would encourage you to consider waiting to add back foods until you have been on it for at least 4 weeks, possibly more. The Paleo Mom discusses some of the research behind it if you want more information, but if you are doing this due to inflammatory or digestive issues, it can often take at least 4 weeks of the foods removed from our system for the inflammation to come down enough and the gut to start to heal for you to be able to fully catch reactions to foods as you add them back into your diet. A couple of my friends who have stuck it out the 4-6 weeks before starting any re-introductions of foods said it made a big difference and reinforced to me that I must not cheat during that time for it to really work. You may be doing it for different issues than what myself or my friends with autoimmune issues did the diet for, but just sharing in case it is a help or encouragement. Also, while many other non-AIP foods are usually good and healthy foods, just be encouraged that there are still so many healthy options on the AIP diet and the non-AIP foods are temporarily eliminated for a reason. Many people who benefit from the AIP diet find that, at least while their gut/body is healing, that many "healthy" foods aren't actually good for their bodies. There are a lot of healthy foods that actually cause problems for me that I never would have known if it weren't for the AIP diet. Since you are all seeing so many positive changes on the diet, hopefully it will be easy for each of you to identify what foods have been causing the issues for each of you.
  10. I own the PoP video and watched it tonight to refresh my memory. I've been meaning to start it with my older kids, especially my DD currently in speech and OT. I think I've seen a YouTube video of the same exercise she demonstrated on the video for the Palmar reflex. I will try to remember to look tomorrow. Feel free to remind me. That said, I did notice that the download of her video is on sale for $15 right now if you want the whole video cheaper. I've been wanting to work on the Babkin reflex as well and never considered brushing. Did you use a video to demonstrate what to do? The Babkin and Palmar are both reflexes that I am sure DD has retained (along with many others). I am now wondering if it is linked to some of the oral motor struggles we are currently working through as well. I have some other resources I am using as well to work on reflexes that I can come back and link later this week. I am running out of time today.
  11. The US version is here: https://toebytoeusa.com/ If you sign up for their VIP club (which is free), you can access some videos that demonstrate how the programs works and see some of the workbook pages. It also has some downloadable forms as well in the VIP area. I didn't get through all the videos last night, but the couple I watched were interesting. From my little understanding, Toe by Toe takes a little different approach than OG programs that I have used and it seems to teach and some things in a different manner, but overall it looks like it would help with where my older DD is now (it would be a fail for younger DD who didn't pass the Barton screening). However, it does look like it's designed to be used one on one and with each student having their own workbook/book. It does use nonsense words which may help if your students are doing DIBLES testing. ETA: Toe by Toes does not combine spelling and reading if you need a program that does both.
  12. I just thought I'd mention, in case someone searches for Toe by Toe on here (I did not that long ago and didn't find much), Toe by Toe now has a US version with US spellings in their book. I have been considering purchasing it to use with my daughter that I just bought High Noon 2 to use with as well.
  13. I don’t know if you are still looking for ideas, but I took regular olive oil and mixed in some lavender oil and melaleuca (tree tea) oil. I applied to the hair for about an hour and then combed through with a nit comb. I then applied a thick layer of conditioner and combed through the other a bit comb again. Afterwards we shampooed with regular shampoo. In the meantime, I changed bed sheets daily and we bagged dolls and stuffed animals. After no longer seeing live bugs, I decreased the frequency to about every other day. Two weeks after the last live bug was seen, I stopped combing through hair.
  14. Equipping Minds is a type of cognitive therapy. I first heard about them from a HSLDA newsletter. They identify both strengths and weaknesses during an evaluation and then work to strengthen the weaknesses. They look at areas of retained reflexes, visual processing, auditory processing, working memory, processing speed, and more from my understanding. Obviously it won't be the same as a full exam from a vision therapy center, or an exam by an audiologist, etc. I have read various reviews about how helpful it was in various types of struggles and how people also in other therapies at the same time made much faster progress in those other therapies than was typical. They offer services that range from providing the therapy themselves 5 days a week to doing a mix of therapies with their therapist and the parents doing the majority of the therapy work to providing a program with video training and materials that a parent or other adult can buy, watch, and learn and then implement on their own. They provide both in person and via skype services as well. If you are an HSLDA member then they will even evaluate your child for free. I am going to have both my girls evaluated. My oldest has a very slow processing speed and would benefit from the rapid naming work and while she has good working memory, it can always be strengthened. I feel like younger DD could benefit from a mix of everything to be honest. Younger DD was always "not quite bad enough" to qualify for different types of therapy services in the past, but as she has gotten older she has continued to fall behind peers her age and may qualify for some different therapies at this point. Time will tell with evaluations this fall. The developer of Equipping Minds was published in the Journal of Alternative Medicine Research this summer and also has other research linked on their website. I also saw a few people mention using Equipping Minds in a Barton facebook group I'm and comments about how it helped these struggling students. One tutor mentioned a student who even had a hard time going through Foundation in Sounds so she stopped it and worked through Equipping Minds material first and then the student had no problems completing Foundation in Sounds. It's all interesting enough that I want to learn more and explore this option. I hope my High Noon order ships this week! Hopefully they will email me when they do ship it, but don't know if that is normal for them or not.
  15. Thanks. Your experience with OTs makes sense. I hadn't thought about it before, but I'm sure it's such a vast field of training that not everyone gets trained in all areas or understands all areas as well. Somewhat like seeing a general practitioner vs a specialist for certain types of medical problems. I actually brought up about an OT referral to our ped while we were there yesterday morning. He suggested I check with the school first as there is only 1 place locally that does pediatric OT and has a long waiting list. I was supposed to hear back from the school about a speech eval and haven't yet so that is on my list for tomorrow morning to follow up with them about both evals and find out why the SLP hasn't scheduled an eval yet. If she doesn't qualify at the school, private with the long waiting list is our next option. If our local school still uses skype for work with an OT (they didn't have one on site last I knew), then I will ask our ped to put in the referral this week so we can get the waiting game at the next place started. It's also time to update her vision therapy exam due to a variety of changes since she was examined 3 years ago. I don't actually expect everything to fix itself with integrating reflexes, but I feel like she will be able to progress more once those reflexes are integrated, whether with an OT or at home. I also feel like those retained reflexes are inhibiting her from developing normally. This weekend I remembered I had several books by OT Mom that I had printed and bound from when my older DD was going through handwriting struggles. While I wait to get in with an actual OT, I will try those suggestions to at least do something. As for buttons, I didn't word her ability well. She can do some buttons that are easier (like on a dress sweater), but she struggles with larger harder buttons like on a pair of jeans. I feel like she should be able to do the jeans buttons by now. Tying shoes are an issue, but that is likely a combination of midline and fine motor issues for her. I have to run but will be back to explain the rest later.
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