Early Reading

I Thought You’d Never Ask! Actually, you didn’t ask, but I know that after last week’s blog, you’re probably thinking it. “What the heck am I supposed to teach for 5 [...]

Pete and Repeat I’ve talked about this before, but I’m going to talk about it again because it’s so important. I’ll say it differently this time, so you won’t get [...]

Two Scenarios This problem can go either way: either the child with Down syndrome is having a difficult time with learning phonics, or the child has learned letters and letter sounds but is stuck [...]

What’s a Mother To Do? Okay, you’re all too young to remember that iconic commercial which ends in “What’s a mother to do?” But really, what’s a [...]

7 More Essentials for Best Practice in the Classroom Last week, I invited you to dream with me and imagine ideal classroom support for our emergent readers with Down syndrome. I gave you 7 [...]

Let’s Dream: The Ideal Reading Support I’m going to dream here for a minute. I hope you can take this dream and morph it into a reality for your child, or as close to it as possible. [...]

The Fast Flash Method Some time ago I wrote a blog about the Fast Flash Method of teaching sight words to our kids with Down syndrome. You can follow that link to remind yourself of the finer [...]

Bringing the Best of the Conference to You, Part 2 Part 2! If you couldn’t attend the Down Syndrome Education Conference in California last month, or even if you did, here are some gems [...]

Why Not? What’s Wrong? In the ordinary case of a child/teen/adult with Down syndrome who hasn’t learned to read, you’ll typically see this scenario: may have started off pretty [...]

Big Type, Big Books, Big Results My son Jonathan is smack in the middle of that broad spectrum of abilities which cover the Down syndrome chart. He’s not a super star; he weighs in as [...]