Question for Beth regarding PACE

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Beth,

You mentioned that your son did pace and I thought I remembered that you said it involved drill and kill and I thought you mentioned something about worksheets.

I just got off the phone with the PACE trainer and she said that it involves no work sheets. She said it involves a metronome and multitasking exercises that have shown to improve atttention. It sounded more like therapy. It involves jumping on a trampoline and other physical exercise while doing cognitive work. It reminded me of your bouncing on a ball/practicing letter sounds activity.

Is this the same pace? I am considering this as the next step. We have no activities for November so I thought since he did so well with IM this might fine tune his attention and improve his cognitive abilities. I was going to do audiblox but now am wondering if this isn’t the right step because it is intensive and limited to 12 weeks.
Either way we are scheduled for a free assessment. I may wait until the summer.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/08/2002 - 6:18 PM

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Hi Linda,
We haven’t done PACE, but a local friend of mine has her daughter doing it right now and I’ll ask about the worksheets. As far as I know there are no worksheets.

I had my son take the free test and I borrowed a video that described the program and showed some of the exercises. It was quite impressive. I’d love to go through PACE myself! ;-)

We just started Audiblox yesterday. My son was slightly resistant. He kept wanting to play with blocks! This is going to take dedication.

Sometimes I feel like a therapist. :-o

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/08/2002 - 7:03 PM

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Laura,

I have been on the fence between audiblox and PACE. I really like the intensive nature of PACE, even though it is expensive. I am refininancing and was going to buy window treatments. Heck, so what if the windows are bare if my child needs this.
I have even tossed around the idea of becoming trained in PACE since it costs the same to get trained as it does to go through the program. My son will be tested November 5.
It sounds like a program that addresses the thing I keep saying on here. It seems to address the deficit and not just try to teach around it. I really like that approach.
I think audiblox does something similar but is less intensive. My son is one of those rare children that can withstand intensive measures. He actually does better with them.

Please keep us posted on your audiblox experience. I am very interested. Also, let us know how your friend’s child does with PACE. Thanks.

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/09/2002 - 1:19 AM

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I say skip the window treatments (just go buy inexpensive lace curtains! Lace is always light and cheerful ;-)

I’m also considering PACE, but throught I’d try Audiblox in the meantime….. while waiting for the closest IM provider to get back from her vacation. I’ve had an impossible time trying to get an appointment to see her! And she’s faraway.

I’m also waiting to see if I can get vision therapy covered under my insurance….

At this point I’m grasping for straws.

So while I’m waiting, I figured I’d try this. But really, I should probably just take a out a huge loan and enroll my child in Lindamood Bell and PACE.

I think the testing should help you with your decision. I looked into PACE awhile back but orginally decided not to do it because my son scored above age level on his testing. The provider was very honest and told me that she didn’t think my son needed it. More recently (when I talked with the IM provider) she thought my son would be a good candidate because there was some big “swings” in his scores. There was an 8-year spread. According to this second providor, this is an indication of a problem that could be helped with PACE.

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