Mafeleon
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My child is in first grade, I just realized she is having speech delay problems, is having trouble studying for exams in school. How can I help her?
She just was diagnosed with speech delay. She is turning 8 years this month. She is having trouble studying for exams in school. The school system is very strict in the sense that every week she needs to study for small quizzes and has lots of homework everyday, but it has really been a struggle for her to retain information and understand certain concepts. As a parent I try to help her in her studies but I can not get any results. How can I help her get the information and retain it?
Member Added on Sep 30, 2009
We have been living six years overseas. At the beginning we thought she had ADD. The school new she had learning disabilities but still they tried to encourage her to study.
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School and Academics, Speech and language issues, Cognitive development
53 days ago
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Hi Mafeleon,
I don't have any experience with managing a child's learning challenges so I hope someone who does will answer your question with some specific things to do.
But until then, I just wanted to say that it sounds like you feel like helping your daughter is something you have to do on your own. Now that she has a diagnosis, you should be able to get support and help from her school. Can you make an appointment with the school special education teacher? Hopefully you can work together with the special ed folks and your daughter's teacher to create a plan that will help your daughter reach her full potential and be successful in school. Once you have a better understanding of how your daughter's condition impacts her learning, you'll be able to learn the best ways to help her.
Best of luck to you and to your daughter!
Kat
I don't have any experience with managing a child's learning challenges so I hope someone who does will answer your question with some specific things to do.
But until then, I just wanted to say that it sounds like you feel like helping your daughter is something you have to do on your own. Now that she has a diagnosis, you should be able to get support and help from her school. Can you make an appointment with the school special education teacher? Hopefully you can work together with the special ed folks and your daughter's teacher to create a plan that will help your daughter reach her full potential and be successful in school. Once you have a better understanding of how your daughter's condition impacts her learning, you'll be able to learn the best ways to help her.
Best of luck to you and to your daughter!
Kat
45 days ago
When you don't "hear" the sounds, you can't "say" the sounds and can therefore not "read" the sounds. Delayed speech will affect all areas of learning since they are all interrelated. It is extremely important that your child receive a multisensory learning approach. This includes seeing, saying, hearing and touching the skills learned.
Studies from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development have shown that for children with difficulties learning to read, a multisensory teaching method is the most effective way for these students to learn.
Multisensory teaching means the teachers must tap into all learning modalities - see it (visual), feel it (tactile), hear it (auditory) and move with it (kinesthetic). Most teachers rely heavily on teaching the curriculum using the auditory and visual learning approaches. The teacher will talk and the child will read the information or look at diagrams and pictures or what the teacher has put up on the board or the overhead projector. Although this will benefit students that learn well using their visual and auditory pathways, it will not benefit a child who has dyslexia, auditory or visual processing disorders. It will also not benefit a child with ADHD who has difficulties focusing and concentrating. These children will also need to involve the use of touch and movement. This could include using manipulatives, sand trays, modeling clay, jumping rope, beanbag tossing, basketball, rhythmic recall, etc.
For more information on multisensory learning see the following information:
Studies from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development have shown that for children with difficulties learning to read, a multisensory teaching method is the most effective way for these students to learn.
Multisensory teaching means the teachers must tap into all learning modalities - see it (visual), feel it (tactile), hear it (auditory) and move with it (kinesthetic). Most teachers rely heavily on teaching the curriculum using the auditory and visual learning approaches. The teacher will talk and the child will read the information or look at diagrams and pictures or what the teacher has put up on the board or the overhead projector. Although this will benefit students that learn well using their visual and auditory pathways, it will not benefit a child who has dyslexia, auditory or visual processing disorders. It will also not benefit a child with ADHD who has difficulties focusing and concentrating. These children will also need to involve the use of touch and movement. This could include using manipulatives, sand trays, modeling clay, jumping rope, beanbag tossing, basketball, rhythmic recall, etc.
For more information on multisensory learning see the following information:
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34 days ago
You have the right to have your child evaluated. Speech is the basis for reading. ADD and LD are very different diagnoses. A child must not be frustrated by learning. Every child has their own style of learning, and teachers are required by Law to accomodate for that. Also, another thing to consider may be chemicals and toxins in her enverinment. Also, that are natural supplements that may help. You have right to an evaluation and they have a timeline dictated by law to complete the testing. Hope the following resource is a help.
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32 days ago
