Yu Ying and Special Needs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your child may be able to sight read (memorize the way words look to read them) but eventually everyone needs to develop decoding skills and these are the skills that are often impacted by speech issues.

Assessed and evaluated by developmental ped and SLP: Not hyperlexic. SN does not affect reading, processing, cognitive, etc. Specifically, SN is fluency issue not speech issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your child may be able to sight read (memorize the way words look to read them) but eventually everyone needs to develop decoding skills and these are the skills that are often impacted by speech issues.

So which # on the wait list are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your child may be able to sight read (memorize the way words look to read them) but eventually everyone needs to develop decoding skills and these are the skills that are often impacted by speech issues.

So kids with SNds who have problems learning/reading: ADHD, ASD, speech issues/delays, decoding, processing, etc. don't belong at Yu Ying? Sounds like YOU don't belong at a public charter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your child may be able to sight read (memorize the way words look to read them) but eventually everyone needs to develop decoding skills and these are the skills that are often impacted by speech issues.

Assessed and evaluated by developmental ped and SLP: Not hyperlexic. SN does not affect reading, processing, cognitive, etc. Specifically, SN is fluency issue not speech issue.

Sounds like it should not be an issue then--thanks for sharing. And the subsequent posters need to chill out a little.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your child's speech issue is likely to make learning to read more difficult (this is fairly common), I personally would not do Chinese immersion.

My DC has speech issue and reads and comprehends well beyond grade level. DC was read to everyday since birth and started reading on his own at 2, maybe that is why his speech issue doesn't effect his reading.

[Anonymous]

Glad that your kids are doing well in reading despite speech issues. Here is some information from a speech pathologist about the connection btw speech and reading. And the connection to immersion schools is that if a child has reading trouble in English, that child usually requires MORE time in reading instruction in English which probably is not going to be easy if a school is also trying to instruct in a second language.

...when a child’s difficulty only lies in articulation and does not involved language ability, literacy outcomes are quite good. However, if the deficits include vocabulary development (semantics) or sentence construction (syntax) the child is more likely to develop a reading disability. Yet, previous research has also shown that that if a child’s speech (e.g., articulation) delays persist to when the child is beginning to read, such delays will have an impact on reading skills. Therefore, it is unclear whether reading disabilities are affected by language delays in the context of SSD, by persistent speech difficulties, or by a combination of these two factors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your child may be able to sight read (memorize the way words look to read them) but eventually everyone needs to develop decoding skills and these are the skills that are often impacted by speech issues.

Assessed and evaluated by developmental ped and SLP: Not hyperlexic. SN does not affect reading, processing, cognitive, etc. Specifically, SN is fluency issue not speech issue.

Sounds like it should not be an issue then--thanks for sharing. And the subsequent posters need to chill out a little.

OP: You're welcome. We have a friend, an adult, who has the same issue. He is trilingual and has problems in English and his native language but funny enough not in Mandarin, perhaps because it's a tonal language? Of course we know others who also struggle in Mandarin and any other language they speak so I guess we'll find out. Our therapists believe it may be a developmental phase that DC will outgrow like most kids. However, DH didn't grow out of it so I don't think we're being over cautious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your child may be able to sight read (memorize the way words look to read them) but eventually everyone needs to develop decoding skills and these are the skills that are often impacted by speech issues.

Assessed and evaluated by developmental ped and SLP: Not hyperlexic. SN does not affect reading, processing, cognitive, etc. Specifically, SN is fluency issue not speech issue.

Sounds like it should not be an issue then--thanks for sharing. And the subsequent posters need to chill out a little.

OP: You're welcome. We have a friend, an adult, who has the same issue. He is trilingual and has problems in English and his native language but funny enough not in Mandarin, perhaps because it's a tonal language? Of course we know others who also struggle in Mandarin and any other language they speak so I guess we'll find out. Our therapists believe it may be a developmental phase that DC will outgrow like most kids. However, DH didn't grow out of it so I don't think we're being over cautious.

You're in the phenomenally lucky position of being able to accept and/or dismiss certain highly charged cases at will.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your child may be able to sight read (memorize the way words look to read them) but eventually everyone needs to develop decoding skills and these are the skills that are often impacted by speech issues.

Assessed and evaluated by developmental ped and SLP: Not hyperlexic. SN does not affect reading, processing, cognitive, etc. Specifically, SN is fluency issue not speech issue.

Sounds like it should not be an issue then--thanks for sharing. And the subsequent posters need to chill out a little.

OP: You're welcome. We have a friend, an adult, who has the same issue. He is trilingual and has problems in English and his native language but funny enough not in Mandarin, perhaps because it's a tonal language? Of course we know others who also struggle in Mandarin and any other language they speak so I guess we'll find out. Our therapists believe it may be a developmental phase that DC will outgrow like most kids. However, DH didn't grow out of it so I don't think we're being over cautious.

You're in the phenomenally lucky position of being able to accept and/or dismiss certain highly charged cases at will.

Yes, we realize that but it's b/c the research says so. 90% of kids with this issue (which at this point, I'll identify, it's stuttering) outgrow it without any intervention: It's problematic whether therapy is affective at all for young children. Even with a family history, gene penetrance is unpredictable: DH (lots of therapy) is an adult stutterer but his father (no therapy) was a child stutterer who does not stutter as an adult. So.... our goal right now is to have DC talk without being self conscious, prevent advice from well meaning adults (making DC more self conscious), and to prevent teasing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your child may be able to sight read (memorize the way words look to read them) but eventually everyone needs to develop decoding skills and these are the skills that are often impacted by speech issues.

Assessed and evaluated by developmental ped and SLP: Not hyperlexic. SN does not affect reading, processing, cognitive, etc. Specifically, SN is fluency issue not speech issue.

Sounds like it should not be an issue then--thanks for sharing. And the subsequent posters need to chill out a little.

OP: You're welcome. We have a friend, an adult, who has the same issue. He is trilingual and has problems in English and his native language but funny enough not in Mandarin, perhaps because it's a tonal language? Of course we know others who also struggle in Mandarin and any other language they speak so I guess we'll find out. Our therapists believe it may be a developmental phase that DC will outgrow like most kids. However, DH didn't grow out of it so I don't think we're being over cautious.

You're in the phenomenally lucky position of being able to accept and/or dismiss certain highly charged cases at will.

Huh??