Reply to Is language an approximation of intelligence of a child is verbal?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Is language an approximation of intelligence of a child is verbal?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]

I scanned this post and have two general comments to posters.

OP - I do have a daughter, now young adult with an ID, and when she was young, I was glad to see that she learned words and of course kept count of all she knew.  She started speech therapy at age 3 - 10 year round private as well as school because we found that her strength was in verbal skills.  I will say that it did help even in the early IQ testing not so much in ever changing the IQ score, but in the educational subtests which showed that she her language skills were well above her IQ, and, she did, in fact learn to read well given her profile.  The SLP was correct to say that as one gets to higher order speech or language skills, you will see that the cognitive skills kick in for sequencing, making connections of date on a higher level.  The key for me was always that she learned to read with good comprehension to her level as reading for readings sake is not all that great.  She is an excellent speller having had a phonics based instruction.  On the other hand, she does not on her own write letters to folks all that much, but will copy one well that we may generate in draft form together.

[b]What are your thoughts about a two year old with borderline expressive language delays who has been in a Spanish immersion preschool since 6 months? Family's first language is English. Is an eval appropriate? Receptive language and response to verbal requests seem on target. TIA.
	[Report Post][/b]

I would just note that if there is any question at all in the speech ability of the young child that a fully immersion preschool environment even if English is the home language may not be the best setting.  We have two grandchildren - fraternal twins who were in such a preschool, child care setting and the one with I will say average intelligence has had a difficult time in learning to read and even more so learning to write in kindergarten and first grade.  In part it is due to developmental readiness with the new "push down" academics, but you also need to know that they no longer officially teach spelling in many public schools and all instruction is "paced."  My close friend who was a reading specialist (top tutor in her area, too) had serious reservations for about this setting for the twins.  However, one who is more gifted had no problems at all, but the one did.  So it is just something to take into account.  In theory it is a nice idea, but it can have an impact on some in acquiring main language.  The GC has had a tutor for six months and is now getting some additional intervention this summer, but the expectation is to be an independent reader by third grade.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics