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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey: Thanks! Two quick questions for the immediate PP.

Why do you think keyboarding during the school year was too much? We do it a few times a week and I was thinking of increasing it.

Also, do you remember when your kids start needing school text books in audio form? So far we've been using NOVA to improve knowledge of science and social studies.

[/quote]  At that time, DC went to a reading tutor after school 2-3 times a week and we worked at home on remediation on the other days.  Every day. Plus he "ear read" books at his cognitive level at least 30 minutes a day.  Plus, he had his regular homework. He usually scribed to me and then would retype it for practice if there was enough time. Adding 20 minutes of typing practice to that was too much for him.  He also did a sport at that time. He really needed down time and still does.  We found that he could really improve typing in the summer and it would last during the year.  One trick I learned was for me to take the speed test at the end of a level- otherwise he would have never progressed to the next levels.  He is a slow typist but it is fast enough for him to work- he says he can type as fast as his brain thinks- so he is reluctant to use the speech to text programs.

He listened to books from the get go.  Mostly we got books from Learning Ally and the Arlington General Library (it has the best collection of books on CDs in their children's area).  He was in a pullout for Language Arts where they worked mainly on the writing and reading remediation, so he would listen to other books at home and write book reports at home to make up for lost instruction in a regular curriculum. This helped him keeping moving along books as there were increasing complexities of characters and plot structures that just were not available at his reading level. As I mentioned in my previous post, it also helped with his vocabulary, background knowledge and comprehension.  IN 4th-6th grade we mined the Newberry book Awards and Honors list quite a bit.  They are available more often in audio form and he liked quite a few of them.  He also got caught in up the Harry Potter and Percy Jackson series.  Rick Riordan is great as his characters have ADHD and dyslexia.  We can all recite the first few books of Harry Potter because we listened to them so much- we have the American and British versions. :)

We also read to him tons of books- until we were hoarse.  He loved non-fiction and those were harder to find in audio versions.  Ginger (real) and lemon tea with honey helps!

As I said in my previous post,  he got books from Learning Ally, but as he progressed through school, Virginia AIM (in HS) and Bookshare had the higher level textbooks.  If no one has it, his college has a machine that will take a book and scan it into the PDF and his Kurzweil can read it.  That is cumbersome, and time taking, but it works.  He ended up preferring his chose computer voice in Bookshare or Kurzweil to a human reader. This was true especially with fiction books as a human reader is like an actor and you hear the book through their interpretation.

One trick I learned when he was reluctant to start a new book, we to put it into the CD player in the car when we were going out for more than 20 minutes.  Then he would be hooked. [/quote]

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