Teaching Down syndrome

Ink It In! If your reading plan is going to succeed (hopefully beyond your wildest dreams), you’re going to have to make that Teaching/Learning Time a HABIT. It has to have a place in your [...]

In Defense of Sight Word Reading You’ve been following along with our Success Steps to reading, and right now you’re Fast Flashing some really cool words that go with the awesome [...]

Step by Step… If you’re just joining me now, we’re walking together through the whole process of teaching our children with Down syndrome to read, week by week and step by step. [...]

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 [...]

The Terrier Technique You’re gonna love this simple technique, because it will improve two things: fluency and comprehension. How good can it get? What Did You Say? Simply explained, you [...]

They Shalt Not… This tidbit was buried in last week’s blog on classroom reading woes, so I decided to pull it out and let it stand on its own. We all know about our offspring’s [...]

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 [...]

A Group To Watch! I had a great time over the weekend giving workshops in Florida: Jacksonville (DSAJ) and Orlando (DSACF). The audiences were terrific, responsive, and interactive, and in [...]

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 [...]