How do you choose students to participate (which students get the highest priority)? Volunteer coaches or paid employees? Success stories?
I have been to a couple of local conferences but I would like to hear what's going on in other places.
2007-01-09 10:56:50 · 1 answers · asked by wiscoteach 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
My son went through Fast Forword training and it was very effective for him. It's greatest use is for children with an inability to identify sounds to map to letters, or an inability to break apart the sounds of a word.
When he started at the age of 10, he would look at me like I was crazy when I made the ccc -aaa- t sounds for cat. It made no sense to him. He did not read at all at that time, although he could memorize a few words. After Fast Forword, he started a Wilson reading program (the one that is provided through the Scottish Rites Masons.) He is now reading independently at grade level at age 14, although he still has an IEP for speech (for R's) and qualifies for help in the Language Arts class for spelling.
His training was provided by our own speech therapist and I believe it would be helpful for the people who provide this training to have some audiology understanding.
Our school district did not provide this program, as they were heavily enamored with the Joys of Whole Language Reading and didn't believe sounding out to be necessary.
2007-01-12 03:59:37 · answer #1 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋