I'm a bit confused. If your daughter already has enough of a grasp of phonics to understand the difference between actually spelling and phonetic spelling, why is it that phonetic information can't be introduced withi fingerspelling. That would provide her with actual spelling information as well as the phonetic information. She already has the ability to hear the difference, so she is not dealing with the ambiguity of relying on solely visual information via lipreading. That is where CS is useful. In providing phonetic information that is normally heard in a visual manner for the individual that cannot hear the information and cannot see the difference via lip reading.
CS instead of math? For children that are not suffering from literacy or language difficulties? That kind of follows the same philosophy of neglecting core academic subjects in order to spend inordinate amounts of time focusing on speech and speech reading that is so prevalent in oral only programs designed for deaf children, isn't it?
We do things together as a group. Most of the time. She is exceptional.
She taught herself to read at 4 after my introduction to phonics. I tested
her and she now reads at a 12th grade 3rd month level with a 93 % comprehension level. She is 10 years old. Intrestingly enough
she is only at grade level in math. The wonderful thing about home schooling
is I can taylor my program to what I want. I take breaks whenever I want for field trips and for plays and whatever. As for neglecting math, I have
tutored kids falling behind in public school and neglecting core programs for
social engineering and propagandizing is one of their major problems.Only their kids never seem to get back to the core program. The reason I am trying this approach is for my 7 year old who appears to be having some slight developmental delays in reading. I want to test CS to
see if the use of the sounds at the same time as making them with his hands will spur his central nervous system development in this area. It is an experiment. I am always open to learning new and interesting things. I think taking 18 days out of my math program, which is not behind is a reasonable
approach to motivate the boys interest. Besides, when I went to the Deaf Poker Tournament in Grand Ronde to meet some Deaf people, I communicated with some Deaf who knew ASL, some who used SEE and one who cued with his friends. Since there are many generations of Deaf who were forced to use oralisum it seems only nice to learn to use it as well. I can see after looking at it where knowing it would have helped me understand the speech better of
my husbands Deaf cousin. Thats what he had been forced to learn. His speech was awful and you had to be around him for weeks befor you could understand him. If I had this tool to use I may have been able to help him more. I believe in learning everything in ones areas of interest.
