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I've been chatting on the Professor and Retired Teachers chatboards for about 4 years. Now I am looking for advice for myself on this chatboard. If you have the time to read on and possibly respond, it would be appreciated.

Background - We have a 28 year old daughter (Debi) with Down Syndrome who we just put into a group home 3 months ago. Debi is fairly high functioning, reads at the early first grade level, is in a job skills program she loves and participates in bowling and Special Olympics gymnastics. Her speech is difficult to understand unless you have been around her due to partly (we believe) to un-diagnosed hearing loss when she was young. She was in our local public school district in SPED from age 3-22 and she loved it all. She mainstreamed 4th grade and half of 5th grade plus lots of classes in junior high and high school. We have an awesome district.

Debi had some behaviors at home that are typical with Downs but not good for the group home. At home she w...See More
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Prof Phil On 7/09/15, Beth Special Needs wrote:
> Would your daughter be motivated by Disney music? Prehaps
> prepare a play list with enough music to last just long
> enough
for
> her to get showered, dressed and ready for work at a
> leisurely
, but
> acceptable rate. When she gets in the shower, the staff
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Jul 11, 2015
Prof Phil On 7/11/15, Prof Phil wrote: > On 7/09/15, Beth Special Needs wrote: >> Would your daughter be motivated by Disney music? Prehaps >> prepare a play list with enough music to last just long >> enough > for >> her to get showered, dressed and ready for work at a >> leisurely > , but >> acceptable rate. Whe...See More
Jul 17, 2015
AM to OP and Kathy Just so you know I am a parent of special needs child not
a teacher.

I like Beth's idea. It seems the problem may be that she
has absolutely no sense of time. I found that positive
always works faster than negative with my son. She likes
Disney music so it can be positive, enjoyable and a game
to finish at the same time the...See More
Jul 21, 2015
Kathy to AM He has a website. Just google his name. Apparently ALL children can learn to read if they can write the alphabet in order in 40 seconds or something like that. When he is challenged, he doesn't respond. I asked how that would work with children with severe physical disabilities. No response. He jumps on threads with his miracle "cure" for...See More
Jul 22, 2015
AM Ahhh I knew there had to be something he gained as I see nothing the posters or children will gain from his posts.

On 7/22/15, Kathy to AM wrote: > He has a website. Just google his name. Apparently ALL > children can learn to read if they can write the alphabet in > order in 40 seconds or something like that. When he is > cha...See More
Sep 3, 2015


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