APD suggestions for a 6 yr old

I am wondering if a 6 year old who is just starting grade one needs a lot of extra work over the summer. To help with processing, expecially hearing with background noises, why not play simon says and games like that where your little guy has to listen for what to do. make sure there are noises and distractions around to make him work harder! the best part of this is that he won’t know that he is “working’ and ‘learning’

my 9 year old has just been diagnosed with this and other difficulties. he will be using an fm system in his class to help with background noises and it should enable him to pick out the important words easier.
good luck
charlene

We play games right now, but I try not to overload to much after school because he is in Kindergarten from 8:15 to 2:45, thats why I am looking toward the summer.

I know that by the end of first grade most of the children can read at the school he attends. I also know that the children in his class have all reached the point of letter recocgnition and letter sounds. I don’t want to push him but I want him to start off on a level playing field.

I am not going to drill him with facts all summer but I also don’t want him to regress and have to start all over come September. The Earobics will work well for getting him used to the computer and helping with his disabilities but he also needs programs that will work for letters and numbers.

I wold like to know some programs I can use for letter recocgnition. Even if he were to only meet with a tutor once a week, at least she/he could tell me how things are progressing and what to work on. Since I am at a private school and not “part” of the public system it is difficult to access their help and info.

K.

Read him lots of book that help establish phonemic awareness. Play with words by doing rhymes, songs and fingerplays. Read books like Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you hear. Chica, Chica Boom Boom, Cat in the Hat, books that he can listen to, build up in his auditory memory and have fun playing with the sounds. You can do music therapy with products from Advanced Brain Technologies.

Have him listen to books on tape with stories that he can flip through. Disney has some good ones.. There are some products from Lingui Systems and Thinking Publications that you can purchase to help develop reading readiness skills and auditory processing.

I agree with you. We were moving when my son was between K and first grade and I did some with you but not very much. I wish I had done more. We have been playing catch up since.

Beth

Thanks, great suggestoins. He has tons of books but I never thought about books on tape. Why I don’t know but at this point I barely remember my name!! I remember how exacting it was to get a book on tape as a kid!!

The music therapy sounds really interesting! My son is probably going to end up and actor or musician anyway, he is such a ham and will spend hours acting out little plays and movies he creates!

Thanks for the suggestions!

K.