Dual-coding / process of decoding

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Can someone give me some advice or clarity on the above topic. It suggests that my son has a very low (in the 8% percentile) receptive language, which in turn is causing difficulty in linking images to language. What I would like to know is there any strategies I can use to help him with this besides repetition? He has a private speech therapist once a week, plus his SLP that the school has once a week. We have finished Earobics, and he is now using LiPs with his therapist. But what about “at home” based exercises? is there something I can do to help make this stronger?

Submitted by des on Fri, 11/05/2004 - 2:16 AM

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Can you ask the tutor for some LiPS oriented exercises to use at home. I have a student I am doing LiPS with and I have him doing 3 days a week of matching sounds with the labels and that sort of thing. Gander publishing also has a CD out that goes thru the LiPS program. It is about $99. It runs on any Mac and some of the older Windows OS. (not NT or..)

See: www.ganderpublishing.com and look for Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing program (that’s the older name).

—des

Submitted by tereseml on Mon, 11/08/2004 - 8:14 PM

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Des, thanks I will look that up.
But our SLP is working with “sounds of words” Eg: the Lip poppers, hard sounds, soft sounds. I do them at home a little, but it is not “fun” for him and he gets very bored and agitated.
So, I will look up that site and see if there is anything. Thanks

Submitted by Fern on Sun, 11/14/2004 - 5:18 AM

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You don’t mention your son’s age. That could change things. It seems that he’s getting professional help in school and with the tutor. You might want to increase the tutor’s time since LiPs is supposed to be done intensively everyday. I would suggest that at home, you just sit and read together. Pick some easy reading books such as Dr. Seuss or the Berenstain Bears books with lots of rhyming and just read together. Make sure your son can see the pages as you read and have him read a few words or a sentence. Take turns. Help him decode using the correct language and LiPs terminology, but make reading pleasant, not a chore. He needs home and you to be a place of less stress, not more.

Good luck.
Fern

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