Down Syndrome Reading

Dual Diagnosis: Double Whammy Teaching reading to a child with both Down syndrome and autism/ASD is a complex subject, and that of course is an understatement. Over the years, I’ve taught [...]

Are You An After-Schooler? A conservative estimate might be that 99% of parents of in-school-all-day-kids with Down syndrome are also “After-Schoolers.” Meaning that their kids attend [...]

What’s Boring? Here are two common mistakes that we make which cause our learner’s eyelids to droop and their little resistant wills to harden: Repeating the same material for weeks [...]

Ridiculosity “Ridiculosity” is a word I coined when my son Jonathan was little. Ridiculosity? Our kids love it. I kept that in the forefront of my mind when I taught Jonathan (DS, now [...]

Thanks-Giving and Celebrations As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we celebrate all of our children who “stand out,” whether they have Down syndrome or not. And since my Friday blogs focus [...]

The video below is a terrific link to send to your child’s teacher. As parents, we are hard pressed to explain WHY best practice for teaching reading to our kids with Down syndrome is SIGHT [...]

The Sentence Builder This tool is absolutely beautiful for enabling kids who are non-verbal to “show their stuff.” It’s clear and indisputable evidence that they are, indeed, [...]

Errorless Testing Errorless Testing is the way to go with our kids, who typically have an undiagnosed syndrome: “Fear of Failure” (FOF) Syndrome. “No, I can’t!…I [...]

Following my first blog on Modifying Books, some parents have had exciting success with modifying favorite books for their children–exciting because the kids love them and are eager to [...]

  Last week in Part 1, I talked about the comprehension challenge that our kids (and their parents) face and covered some basic insights. Today I’ll summarize those insights and list [...]