Henry Said:

What middle school is better for my son?

We Answered:

On one of those schools websites,they show the sports that each of the school offers and how many students there are

Thelma Said:

Do you have a developmentally disabled/handicapped child that qualifies for Medicaid under Katie Beckett?

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I don't know anyting about this.
Can't you get her classified in one "ism" so she does not dropthrough even though it is not accurate or would it take away some services to do this?
You need a doctor to fight for you and I would write to your congressmen in Washington D.C.
You might also contact Children's Hospital in Washington D.C. Also St. Jude's Children's Hospital. They have the staff there to make your life smoother. I know you do not live near these hospitals but they can possibly help you long distance. They are the experts on helping children with multiple problems.

Todd Said:

I need some help on these issue very the state of Louisiana is not alot of help with their own rules?

We Answered:

Asking an actual question would be a good thing. Putting a question mark at the end does not actually make a question.

Wanda Said:

What is the problem with my 2 yr old?

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It sounds like she's great at memorization, but it sounds like her comprehension/understanding of language might be a bit slow. Try capitalizing on her interest in memorization. When she says, "water," say, "can you say, "I want some water please, mom." Just get her to mimic you. Consistently mirror the language you want her to say. Hopefully she'll say, "I want some water please, mom." And then when you hand it to her say, "can you say, 'thank you, mom.'" And when she says thank you, say "you're welcome."

So my daughter who is a few months younger than yours, has been reciting her ABC's since well before she was two, she can spell her name and accurately counted to 13 today (she's been stuck on 11 for a long time, since it sounds like 7.. she'd get stuck in a recursion loop... 8, 9, 10, 11, 8, 9, 10, 11.. etc.) I've sung the ABC song to my daughter every day of her life since she was born. She can sing it back. But she can only recognize, by sight, letters A through P (though she knows O and Z as well.. and I bet she knows T too.) If you ask her to tell you a word that starts with P, however, she's more apt to say Bruce or Muffin than a word that actually starts with P. That to illustrate that saying something like the ABC's, reciting something, does not really confer an understanding of letters. Similarly, reciting a song from the radio or television that she's memorized doesn't confer an understanding of how language works. My daughter understands 1 through 10, the concept of numbers, better than she understands how these letters work. But the only number she'd recognize by sight is "1." These tasks are not straight forward.. reciting 1 through 20 doesn't mean anything.. does she understand what 13 "means",, if she saw two groups of five, would she count to ten or would she count to five, twice.

My girl memorizes a lot too. That's a good thing as most traditional academic settings are based on this sort of rhetorical learning style... I tell you X, you memorize it, and then I test you on whether or not you can recite X. Try to capitalize on and enhance the way she learns.

I'm not a speech therapist nor do I have any special education in childhood education/learning, etc. But I do believe that the best way to "parent" is to pay attention to HOW our children best learn and adapt our "teaching" style to how our child learns. I don't let my daughter watch any television, so I don't know how she interacts with TV. She knows the words to lots of songs and is starting to be creative in changing the lyrics to make her own jokes (which shows me she can be creative with language and is learning how to use it.) Take some of those songs that she's singing and if they sing about a lion, for example, change the word to be "duck" or "dog" or some other animal and she laughs, encourage her to be creative with the language and laugh at her little jokes if/as she's able to make them by changing words whimsically.

If you call her and she looks at you, just say, "say, 'yes mom." Even if she doesn't parrot you immediately, just keep showing her, by demonstrating, how you WANT her to respond... again, it sounds like she memorizes things well, if you keep telling her the response you want, you might start getting it.

Hope something in there helps..and I hope you get tons of more learned responses that can help you craft a plan. Play with her and talk to her incessantly. Use big words and little words and complicated concepts and simple concepts. Read to her all the time.. morning, noon and night - before nap, before bed, first thing in the morning.. read, read, read. Bring her to story time at the public library. Have her Tee-Tee bring her library books and read to her for an hour or two each week. Turn off the television and just narrate her world with her.