I saw them mentioned in another post and thought that I would look them up. Do you think they work well? Is it a good program? How does it work.
As a review I has a ds (8) with a hearing impairment which slowed his speech, letter recognition, reading etc. We have that under control but I am still trying to bring him up to grade level in reading. We are building fluency. Any information you could share would be great!
thank you! this board is a wonderful support source when I am feeling lost.
Stacy
Re: Audiblox, who has them, what has your experience been? ....
Oh, one more thing about the Special Needs board at vegsource. It’s easy to find the threads about Audiblox if you use the “Edit” and then the “find on this page” option on your browser (on mine, “Edit” is in the upper lefthand corner of the screen). Just run a “find” on Audiblox.
Nancy
Re: Audiblox, who has them, what has your experience been? ....
Stacy,
I think I may have talked to you before (?), but in the case of a hearing impaired child, I probably would not recommend Audiblox if reading is his area of concern.
If you want to send me a private message and tell me what he has been doing in reading thus far and any evaluations you have, I’ll be glad to give you an opinion. I teach hearing impaired and LD children reading.
Janis
Re: Audiblox, who has them, what has your experience been? ....
Go to the Audiblox message board and ask the experts. They will be upfront with you and tell you if they think Audiblox will work for your son.
You can usually find several parents with Audiblox experience on the Special Needs board at http://www.vegsource.com/homeschool/
Audiblox is basically a set of graduated exercises that the child does one-on-one with an adult. The purpose of the exercises is to develop cognitive skills — things such as visual and auditory attention, visual and auditory short-term memory, visual and auditory sequencing, pattern recognition, logic and reasoning, directionality, etc. The video is very helpful in demonstrating how to perform the exercises. Basically, you spend a minimum of 1/2-hour per day 5 days a week on the exercises. Most families start seeing significant gains within about 40 to 60 hours of training, although some children show gains sooner and some later.
It is a very effective program. The biggest pitfall is not doing the daily exercises long enough, or with sufficient regularity. They do get tedious after awhile. Basically it’s like any other skills training program (tennis, basketball, fitness training) — if you put in the time, the skills will improve.
Nancy