Greetings Everyone,
My dd is 6 and I have had her home for a year with homeschooling. I am just discovering that it is highly probable that she has CAPD (testing next week) and something going on with her eyesight (exam next week). Unfortunately, we have not been able to do much homeschooling at all due to the arrival of little brother (she has an older brother that has dyslexia, ADD, and CAPD but he is 11 now and his hearing is extremely excellent—does CAPD disappear??). To top all of that all, I had a very bad flare up of my autoimmune disorder and I have been able to do almost nothing w/ her. She should be on 1st grade level at this time but she is more beginning K.
My question: How can I catch her up quickly? How can I try to get her up to grade level as soon as possible? I am not even sure where she should be…I would love to hear any suggestions or advice from anyone. Thanks everybody!
Re: Homeschooling w/CAPD and Chronic Illness--Help!
Don’t try to do everything overnight. Take your time and get it right. There’s a lot of repetition in the elementary curriculum anyway and she will catch up over the next year or two. If you try to rush you will confuse and frustrate her and set up trouble for years to come.
If you want my reading notes/book in progress, email me at [email protected]
Re: Homeschooling w/CAPD and Chronic Illness--Help!
What were your test results for CAPD? Generally it will not just go away on its own. If the auditory problem is discriminatory in nature she may have difficulty acquiring reading based on phonics. If it is more of an auditory integration problem she may struggle to establish foreground and background in situations where there are competitive sound sources. Problems in this area would make her very easily distracted. Symptoms for auditory integration problems are very similar to someone who has been diagnosed with ADD.
Re: Homeschooling w/CAPD and Chronic Illness--Help!
Drae,
Hearing and auditory processing are two different things. Your son may have excellent hearing but still have significant APD. The fact that he is dyslexic would seem to confirm this.
If your daughter does indeed have APD and/or visual problems, then it is essential that you teach her to read with the right methods, and you will need to go at the pace she can learn. She will need phonics, but you may have to do a lot of phonemic awareness work first. I agree with Victoria, better to do it right than to rush through and end up with even greater problems.
Janis
Re: Homeschooling w/CAPD and Chronic Illness--Help!
There is a bizarre theory in education, that you never see anywhere in the real world: this skill is a little bit difficult to learn. Quick, let’s give it up totally and try something else that we know is ineffective. Spending time and work on getting the basics of an effective program is seen as somehow “damaging” to children.
If your child has difficulty with phonics and math skills, that means you need more time, more patience, more backing up and getting the basics right, certainly not rushing ahead but also not giving up on teaching what is needed.
If I have sent my notes, I hope you read them and try them, starting with the outline on teaching the alphabet (which includes how-to’s and exercises for phonemic awareness). If I haven’t sent them yet, will be trying to get the next batch out in a few days; email at [email protected]
Don’t try to do everything overnight. Take your time and get it right. There’s a lot of repetition in the elementary curriculum anyway and she will catch up over the next year or two. If you try to rush you will confuse and frustrate her and set up trouble for years to come.
If you want my reading notes/book in progress, email me at [email protected]