Still Struggling After Years of Tutoring – How to Strengthen Your Child’s Working Memory
I just got off the phone with a good friend who’s worried about her daughter’s comprehension skills. Years ago, she accepted the diagnosis of her daughter’s dyslexia – a reading disability marked by significant problems in phonological processing (the ability to identify and manipulate the smallest segments of sound). But now she’s wondering why her 11 year-old struggles so much with writing a few paragraphs, while the other girls in her class are writing up to fourteen chapters for a school assignment about their make believe characters. Grace wonders why her daughter needs to read things over and over again, now that her daughter’s decoding skills are basically in tact after years of intense tutoring. She’s also noticing that her daughter watches the same movie over and over again without getting bored at the same silly parts.
Hours earlier, I submitted the final grades for the course that I teach at the University of Colorado at Boulder. There’s a good chance that one of the students in my class will be my daughter’s teacher sometime within the next five years. Will my student know how to support my friend’s daughter? I’d like to say YES. The students in my class cleared up most – if not all – of their misconceptions about dyslexia (e.g. it’s not a problem of letter reversal), and they practiced numerous instructional strategies that support students with dyslexia (e.g. color to identify sentence and text structure). Most of all, they learned that students who do not do well in school are not necessarily students who are not trying…that some students are trying so ridiculously hard, but we just don’t really know what’s going on in their heads. The inner workings of the brain are invisible to the naked eye. We don’t exactly have MRI machines hooked into each classroom to get minute-by-minute brain scans.
Child Day Care Safety Tips
The recent sexual assault of a 4-year old girl at daycare center should get the attention of any parent who is thinking about using a child daycare center. Police in Springdale Arkansas arrested 18-year-old Cesar Monarrez who worked at the Royal Children’s Academy part time. The 4-year old girl told her parents that Monarrez touched her with a knife. It is my understanding that this happened during nap time and the daycare center uses video surveillance which captured the assault.
Millions of parents drop off their small children each day at daycare centers with the thought that their children will be safe because these centers are regulated and you don’t hear of many cases where kids are assaulted at these locations. For the most part the vast majority of daycare centers provide a safe and loving environment for our children. Many daycare centers utilize video surveillance to further protect children from abuse and neglect. The use of video surveillance also affords parents the opportunity to check on their children from the internet while at work or home. I applaud the daycare centers who utilize video surveillance systems that have the feature where parents can watch the video feed from home or work. If I was looking for a daycare center for a small child I would most definitely select one that has this type of video surveillance.
7 Practical Tips for Buying Girls School Shoes
As a mother of three girls aged 8, 6 and 2, I know how difficult it can be to choose the right girls school shoes that keep everyone happy. The shoes you choose need to meet all the criteria that you as a mother would want such as durability, cost and function. At the same time they must appeal to your daughter’s sensibilities and what they believe is the ‘in thing’ at school if she is going to wear them willingly! If this pressure of buying the ‘right’ footwear were not enough you are then faced with the prospect of actually having to find and buy the shoes in the shops. This can mean having to trek through shops to buy school shoes just as every other mother seems to be out doing the same for their precious daughter!
All too often the whole episode is a stressful experience fraught with potential arguments, re-opened family disputes and hours spent feverishly parading around the busy shopping malls or high street with a stroppy daughter on tow! So as a mother and footwear expert I’ve come up with a few tips which will hopefully make your shopping experience a whole lot easier!!
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