Fast Flash

Down the Yellow Brick Reading Road If you’ve been following my blogs on teaching emergent readers with Down syndrome, this one’s for you. Week by week in these blogs, we’re [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Who Knew? ABCs and Numbers! I never would have guessed this, but the same “Fast Flash” method that is so incredibly effective in teaching our kids with DS to read can also teach them [...]

How do you teach reading vocabulary quickly to a child with Down syndrome? You Fast Flash! This method has been used for decades by NACD (National Association for Child Development), and was [...]