Question for SLP's...pattim?

I am not sure…but I will check it out with the audiologist that I have been working with. I have been doing aural rehab therapy with some of the kids she diagnosed with CAPD. She has the Lingui System CAPD kit but I haven’t really gotten into using it as I have been working on the kids phonemic awareness and discrimination using LMB, blocks and lots of dictation. I am working with a first grader and doing a language experience approach at the end of the session. I have him illustrate something he did and he writes about it. I help him with spelling the words. I am also teaching him lots of rhymes and songs to help with his phonemic awareness and timing.

I have found many of the old fashioned rhymes and clapping games to be fabulous fun with many of the kids with CAPD and phonological issues. I have to slow everything down for them but once they get it we start to speed up and they are delighted to master something that has confused them before. This helps them in the classroom as they can keep up wtih their classmates when they are doing some of the same songs like Bingo, Old MacDonald had a farm, Miss Lucy Mack, etc..

I learned it as “Miss Mary Mack”!

“Down by the Bay” is great too- rhyming and vocabulary development!

I guess mine is the West coast version off the school yard, I asked kids and other adults and I got different versions… or maybe I am confusing the Lady with the Alligator purse…… Lucy works two syllables it is good for kids who need to practice the “L” sound……but you are right…about the original being Mary Mack…my apologies…

My daughter, age 9, still cannot sing nursery rhymes. We spend 30 minutes 1 day trying to get “Do you ears hang low?” She’s learned to say, “well mom, my song goes like this” and makes one up. Oh well, she tells me I can sing the lullabies to her babies.

Book one is auditory memory and book two: auditory discrim., closure, and synthesis.

Janis