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J og unregistered |
posted 09-01-2001 05:31 PM
Hi. I am a high schoolspecial education teacher who recently aquired a HOH student on my case load. I am looking for stratagies for teaching reading. This young person has sevre to profound loss in both ears, wears aids and uses an auditory trainer in the class room. Intellectually he/she is performing in the range of Mild Mental retardation. He reads at about the 2nd grade level. He has used a variety of techniques in the past and he has been scheduled into a program of phonics based approach at the high school. I am wondering if this is the best approach for him. I am anxious to hear from any one who has found certain techniques more helpful. I am also posting this message on the spec. ed. board. IP: Logged |
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Satinn unregistered |
posted 09-01-2001 06:37 PM
I'm not a teacher or anything but do you use an FM system with him? Hearing as much language as he is able would certainly seem to help him to improve his reading/phonics skills. IP: Logged |
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Trish538 Member |
posted 09-02-2001 10:04 AM
Hi J og, I have a 7 year old son with severe-profound deafness. He is mainstreamed in second grade. We too had been concerned about the best way to teach him reading and thought phonics might not be the best approach since he could not hear certain speech sounds. He attended a Montesorri preschool that uses the phonics approach and the teachers were initially concerned that that approach was not working for him. To make a long story short, what we found is that the phonics approach does work. It just took a little longer for it to "click" with him. He reads now at an age-appropriate level and is always phonetically sounding out new words phonetically! We did have him pulled out of class in first grade for 3 x 20 minute a week reading skill sessions with a resource teacher. This helped him tremendously. They focused on phonics, but also did sight word exercises. Hope this helps. Good luck. IP: Logged |
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Shyleigh's mom Member |
posted 10-04-2001 09:42 AM
Hi, my daughter is HOH. He definetly needs phonics. I also believe that some form of sign, wheather it be SEE or ASL, would help tie it all together for him. We used the same approach with my daughter(who now speaks wonderfully)she didn't seem much interested in books then we started signing and using our voices and it seemed to tie everything together for her. I don't feel that signing to him will slow his speech down at all.--Good Luck ------------------ IP: Logged |
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