Life In The Real World

It isn't easy for a LD child to cope in the real world environment. At least I can observe being a third party, I noticed the following with my White Horse.

This year he entered formal schooling in the public school. I am glad I have the opportunity to enlist him with the regular children and mind me, he is solo alone by himself most of the time without a shadow aide.

Initially he stuck out like a sore thumb among his peers. Not so much as being a nuisance but rather he behaved inconsistently with his peers. He was among them, they tried to play with him but he ignored them.

It took a while for him to assimilate (still trying) with his peers. I constantly got reports from his classmates of his bad behaviour in classroom e.g running out of the classroom, rolling behind the room and also moving like a fan which they imitated in a cute manner. Fortunatley theya re still young age around 7, so this is still acceptable among his peers.

By in by they accepted his perculiarity and some even got attracted to him, by hanging around him during recess time and also reporting to me about him. Yes I was involved in a way going to the school during recess and also hanging around before and after school. I believe it helps in giving comfort for the children too to have an adult and what more a friendly one too.

Now he has a group of at least 4-5 children with him during recess. I have proceeded further to bring in some short activities e.g making origamis and later some educational play cards, hopeful to attract some children to him. Assimilation.

Teach your child a trade - e.g playing cards, ball. Make him an expert in it so that when others play with him, he will fair well and not be disheartened because of his disability. This helps in making him part of the community/his peers.

Telling a story

Telling a story in the right order or explaining what happened can cause problems.
students are often unaware of the need to sketch out a rough outline of an essay before actually writing it. This can look like this:
1. Introduction - how we decided to go on a trip.
2. What we took with us.
3. Journey to the mountains.
4. Setting up camp by a lake.
5. Getting lost on the first day.
6. Two million mosquitoes at night!
7. Cooking a meal on the camp fire.
8. Singing songs on our journey home.
9. Conclusion - like to go again, but with a mosquito net!
(ref: http://www.dyslexia-parent.com/mag40.html)

With this plan on a sheet of paper, a child can then write a paragraph about each part of the story, confident in the knowledge that each section of the story will be in the right order.

Story Telling

Collect as many things as you can find and place them in a small bucket.
Take them home and talk about the items with your child.
Create your little story book in recollecting the event and the items.