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Friday, September 20, 2013

3 on the 21st Blog Hop


For today's 3 on the 21st Blog Hop, hosed this month by With a Little Moxie, we are asked to post the following:
One truth (about Ds/our lives with Ds)
One tip (- information on something related to Ds/raising a child with Ds/or just parenting in general)
One photo

This is my first blog hop in a while so here goes:
  
One truth:  Kids with Down syndrome generally have a receptive knowledge that far surpasses  their expressive communication skills.

One Tip:  Sign Language and teaching reading as soon as a child understands 50 words, can help parents and educators have a more accurate way of measuring a child's receptive knowledge. 

One Photo:
This is a photo of Ben reading one of Mommy's books.  It does not matter if it is thick or thin, photos or no, Ben loves books.  He once carried a phone book around for a full week.  Took it every where he went and tucked in into bed with him at night. It was cute. 

Happy Blog Hop Everyone!

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3 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 22, 2013 at 11:01 AM

    That's funny about the phone book! My Owen would probably do the same.....he even loves the hymnal at Mass. Ben is a cutie.

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  2. JCSeptember 23, 2013 at 7:39 PM

    I wish everyone knew that one truth. Russell is easily underestimated because of his lack of speech, even by me at times :(

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  3. PSeptember 24, 2013 at 8:04 AM

    Yes, sign & read---reading teaches sentence structure & non verbal kids read with ASL. Sooo important. ASL & reading are visual prompts of language and easier then speaking until language comes along. Technology will help but we aren't there yet! Needs ASL apps & reading / ASL combo apps. Teach us parents & teachers.

    Makes me so frustrated that our school is anti-ASL well they don't use it.

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