Education

Why aren’t flash cards working for my child? Flash cards as they are traditionally used are the slow boat to China. Boring. It can take forever to get that information into the [...]

We can do this We CAN prove our children can read even when they’re non-verbal. I know I’ve talked about this before in past posts, but it bears repeating!  Let’s take a fresh [...]

What is “best practice” now for our kids in inclusive classrooms? Stay in for reading instruction or get pulled out? Here’s valuable input… In or Out? One mother recently [...]

Melissa, FB user and proud mom of Violette (8, with Down syndrome), shot me a few questions she thought might be “blog fodder.” She was right. She wrote, “We pulled out the [...]

I’ve talked about this in a previous blog; here’s an update on this super important topic. About teaching reading to teach talking– Does it work? Yes. How? Let me count the [...]

If your child is 10, 12, or 18, and this is the case, I wish we could say that this was unusual, but it’s not. Let’s look at how this happened and fix it. The Causes Chances are high that your [...]

Yummers! Pass the pumpkin pie, please! I created this book for my students, then thought you might like to have it, too. It’s for emergent readers (Pre-Primer, Primer, etc.) but more advanced [...]

If a child or teen hasn’t caught on to reading, is totally uninterested, or shuts down when a parent or a teacher tries to teach reading, we need to ask ourselves: “What are we [...]

“We go in through the heart and teach to the brain.” “How DO you teach reading to a child with Down syndrome?” asked the Mensan. I was flying across country to give workshops when a [...]

Did you know this? I didn’t. Maria formulated her ingenious teaching methods in 2 years of WORKING EXCLUSIVELY with kids like ours, children with developmental delays. She taught them daily [...]