This age it is still prominent. I'd try different strategies such as ALWAYS underlining the numbers. Making a 6 red and a 9 green. Shaping the 9 with a stick instead of curved.
If you could find a dice with numbers on it, you could play a game. Guess if the dice is going to fall as a 9 or a 6... Baby blocks have numbers on them too.
Perhaps you could make a poster for 6 and another for 9. If you could find rhyming items and place them on the poster...
She should be showing that she remembers which is which soon.
Does she get b and d mixed up?
EG is 10 yrs old and STILL writes her 5s backwards but today, when I told her to fix it, she asked which one. There were numerous 5s on the sheet and she immediately found the backwards one. She knows, she just doesn't care.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
Those are two easy numbers to confuse, and most kids working at that level confuse them. Maybe what Tamie suggested would work. Does it help or confuse to put a line under the number? I know that many dice do that. 96 Could you make one into a little face or anything cutesy?
PS--I'm very impressed that she knows all the numbers but those two. Good job!!
Ds almost 10, with Down syndrome still recognizes very few numbers. One day he recognizes a number the next he won't. He can sometimes count to 25, but usually not. We just keep working on it. The ideas listed above are good.
What helped our dd who had trouble with numbers was to recite a little ditty I made up for her to help her remember which number has its "head" up and which is upside down:
What helped our dd who had trouble with numbers was to recite a little ditty I made up for her to help her remember which number has its "head" up and which is upside down:
Thanks....I will keep working on it trying some of the suggestions.
As to b and d ...not as much as the numbers. She knows b and d, but sometimes she will mix it when writing them down. As soon as I say look at that letter it is suppose to be a b or d and she will correct it.
The 6 and 9... I can tell her she made a 6 instead of a 9, but she needs her number chart to look at to see how to make it.
Vicki...thanks it has been a slow process but about a year ago things just really started fall into place. She started reading, she can do some basic addition..and writes all the time. I can't always figure it out as her penmanship/spelling is not all that great at times.
She is doing way better then what I think she would have done if we had left her in PS system. I can keep her at her academic grade level. In PS if she had stayed in she would be in 6th grade at the middle school and totally and completely lost and in life skills...where it really starts to become less academic and more about "basic life skills"...ie laundry, self care, grocery shopping, cleaning etc.
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
Vicki...thanks it has been a slow process but about a year ago things just really started fall into place. She started reading, she can do some basic addition..and writes all the time. I can't always figure it out as her penmanship/spelling is not all that great at times.
Yep, I'm very impressed!
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I can keep her at her academic grade level. In PS if she had stayed in she would be in 6th grade at the middle school and totally and completely lost and in life skills...
That would be SO horrible--having her in the 6th grade (in name only), completely clueless, but her teachers would think they were doing so well.
Some special ed government school programs are good, I'm sure. And some are really not good at all. They just keep passing the student on regardless of what he or she is actually doing.
I'm pretty sure Matt will go back to school for high school, but not until then. If I sent him now, he'd be in fifth grade and as jemek said, pretty clueless. He's doing 2nd to 3rd grade work, and feels good about himself. Yes the sp.ed room would have him doing that level of work academically, but they would expect him to fit socially with the fifth graders - and go to middle school next year. If I wait till high school, he has to go in as a freshman, no matter what age he is. (don't we have a fiendish grin smiley)
I'm pretty sure Matt will go back to school for high school, but not until then. If I sent him now, he'd be in fifth grade and as jemek said, pretty clueless. He's doing 2nd to 3rd grade work, and feels good about himself. Yes the sp.ed room would have him doing that level of work academically, but they would expect him to fit socially with the fifth graders - and go to middle school next year. If I wait till high school, he has to go in as a freshman, no matter what age he is. (don't we have a fiendish grin smiley)
That is so true. I know here the kids with special needs can actually stay in high school until they are 21. This is what gets me...some of them and I have talked to them...hate it..they start their Freshman year...move along with that class so to speak..then comes the senior year and it is like one of those do over movies..they stay locked in with whatever senior class until they are 21 and transition out.
That was the argument I used with the PS on wanting to hold Kodie back..when will holding her back be more damaging to her self esteem...now when she is 7 years old and the size of a 4 year old...could easily have stayed in k-1 for those extra few years...heck now at 11 she is the size of a 7 year old and academically the same level.
Or when she is 17 and more fully aware of the fact that she is different and that peer group you so insisted that she stay with...is now graduating and leaving her behind.
It didn't work..thus the reason she is home. Some programs are great..there are others where there is deep flaw in the system.
Kodie may go back part-time at high school...for some art classes and such.
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
Our school district is pretty lenient about ANYONE staying in school until they are 21. A few years ago one of our teen moms had been expelled for two years. Her two years was up, she wanted to come back, she needed one year's worth of credits. She turned 21 in April and graduated in June.
I have one girl I am working with right now that will need until she is 21 (if she makes it) Last year in December she walked out of school because she was asked to take off her bandanna (she must've been having a serious bad hair day ) She was passing all of her classes and failed because she didn't take her finals. She came back in January for the spring semester, and walked out in April (can't remember the precipitating factor) Again failed all classes. She's back again this year!! She's 18 now and I am trying to gently encourage getting her own apartment. (Mom kicks her out every once in a while and when she did this last time I suggested finding her own place, but mom took her back. The problem is that when mom kicks her out, then she doesn't get to school.)
I'd love to have her come live with me, but then I'd love to have lots of them live with me, and I can't manage that.
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if that works for you and her. Washington is a good state for part-time enrollment (like MN).
