Looking for Teachers that use Sound Reading in the Classroom

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Hi,
My son is in Resourse for 1 hour a day for reading and math. He is in 1st grade. It looks like we may be adding to that but not sure if or when. They use Project Read in resource. But he needs so much more Phonemic Awareness which PR lacks in.

His SLP used SRS the summer of 03 and this past summer used LIPS for 1 hour a day 5x’s a week. We are still doing that 3x.s a week. And at home also. I recently attended a training for teachers in LIPS (I’m a former Spec. Ed teacher) put on by the Straford Foundation and was amazed at how well it would work in the classroom. Our resource teacher did not attend.

But instead of Project Read I was wondering about seeing if the resource teacher would use not just the SRS’s CD but the whole program. Have any of you “experts” used SRS in the classroom or even one on one? And if so how did it work? What would you tell a fellow teacher about SRS? I would love your suggestions whether it be pros or cons of the program.

My son is 7 in 1st grade has apraxia, seizure disorder and he has a very low working memory. He is on anti - seiz meds and we have seen an improvement in his memory since starting the meds 6 months ago.

Thanks,
Diane

Submitted by des on Tue, 09/21/2004 - 5:58 AM

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He doesn’t really sound ready for Project Read, which is an Orton based
program. OG requires some good phonemic awareness which the LiPS should provide. I’m really not sure if SRS would help or confuse him more, but I think at least it would not be so difficult as the OG program would be. Too bad the teacher didn’t attend the LiPS training session!
Oh well, guess you can’t have everything.

BTW, I would expect that the memory problems will improve on seizure medication, if they have already improved a bit.

—des

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/21/2004 - 7:56 PM

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Hi Des,

Yes, his memory has gotten better.

Also, He did go through the first SRS CD the summer of 03 and completed it during his speech therapy time. I did continue to use it a couple of times a week for a while when school started last year. I did try him on the Elem CD and it was a little hard for him last spring. Do you think we should stop the Project Read for now and just use the whole SRS program or not. Should we just use the CD? I did purchase the whole SRS program and will give that to the resource teacher if she isn’t too reluctant.

I’m waiting on the promo material from the Stratford Foundation that did the LIPS training for the Dept of Ed and present it to the private schools in our area. There was one Resource teacher at one of the private schools that attended the LIPS training. So I’m hoping that she’ll help me influence them to hire them for a training. Then mayber our teacher will jump in with LIPS and supplement the Project Read.

But with the LIPS training this summer he has really improved. In the classroom they use Spalding. He is able to decode and blend words up to the vowels. He can do all the vowels but not thte ae sound on the lips chart. We are working on the o, au, aw, oe, oo(foot) and oo(boot)sounds now. But he is not 80% yet.

They just sent home spelling words yesterday and there were words that of course he can’t phoneticallly spell. But that just goes with the territory. But it has me in one of those “will he ever read” moods. I’ll get over it soon.

Thanks for you reply,
Diane

Submitted by Janis on Tue, 09/21/2004 - 9:21 PM

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Hi, Diane,

My understanding about SRS is that the content is very similar to PG and Nora’s program. So I personally wouldn’t worry about trying the whole program. I want to use the CD’s as supplements to my instruction, though.
I am braindead at the moment so I’ll ask you this even though I should know the answer….has he done FastForWord? If he is having so much difficulty with PA, I think I’d try something intensive like FFW next summer. I would not add in any other reading programs. He is in enough different programs now!

If it were me, I’d put a halt on those spelling words. The rule in my book is, only words they can decode. And the words should ideally come from his reading decoding instruction.

Janis

Submitted by des on Wed, 09/22/2004 - 2:26 AM

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I meant to imply that his memory might improve even more, if he is on the meds long enough.

I agree with Janis re: no spelling. They tend to introduce a whole bunch of non-related words. Perhaps you can talk them into giving him only words that he can decode. For example if he can decode Consonant Vowel Consonant words, to just give him those.

I’m also of the opinion that he should not be doing Project Read either. He is doing hours of reading per week. YIKES, but LIPS is intensive too.
I have personally taught a parent to do some of the LiPS at home as review. This is working very well. But I don’t know if that would be too much for the teacher to perhaps reinforce the LiPS training. There is, however, a LiPS CD, available thru LMB. Perhaps you could get that, and he could do that in school?

Take a look at: http://www.ganderpublishing.com/

Then look under LiPS.

—des

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