Teaching Reading to Children with Down Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
- Book Review,
by Patricia Logan Oelwein
Midwest Book Review
Teaching Reading to Children with Down Syndrome presents a nationally recognized reading program for children with Down syndrome which effectively meets each child's unique learning needs and style. The reading method and lessons presented here are specifically designed to be motivating, fun, and rewarding. Using flash cards, games, charts, and books, the program emphasizes that most children with Down syndrome are visual learners. Parents can customize lessons to capture their child's interest and set the learning pace to a level for greatest success. This step-by-step guide to reading allows parents to work with their child at home and helps them coordinate reading lessons with teachers, ensuring the continuity of their child's education year after year. .
Book Description
Teach your child to read using the author's nationally recognized, proven method. From introducing the alphabet to writing and spelling, the lessons are easy to follow. The many pictures and flash cards included appeal to visual learners and are easy to photocopy!
From the Publisher
A REVIEW - "The gift of reading is one of the greatest treasures you can give a child. Most children with Down syndrome can learn to read, though, like all children, each has his or her own learning styles and needs. Different techniques are more effective with some children than others. Patricia Logan Oelwein developed her reading program at the University of Washington's Child Development and Mental Retardation Center, where it has been successfully 'field tested' for over twenty years. It uses a functional, language-experience approach, adapted for children with Down syndrome who may have difficulty learning to read with traditional programs. The first third of Oelwein's book...describes how children with Down syndrome learn, and how to capitalize on their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. The balance describes a reading program which can be individualized and adapted as needed. The pages are filled with creative learning games that can be played at home or in school, and specific instructions for implementing them. The upbeat tone-targeted primarily to parents-generates lots of enthusiasm. The appendices include sight words, picture and flash cards, game forms and materials, books, and information about other reading approaches, programs, and materials. Many of the techniques should prove effective with children with other kinds of developmental delays." - Disability Resources Monthly, Volume II, Number 10, May 1995
About the Author
Since 1972, Patricia Logan Oelwein has worked in the Down Syndrome Programs at the Child Development Center, University of Washington. She has served as a teacher, as outreach trainer and coordinator, and is the coordinator of the current program at the center. Her years of experience in the specialty of educating children with Down syndrome is thoroughly reflected in this book.
Excerpted from Teaching Reading to Children With Down Syndrome : A Guide for Parents and Teachers (Topics in Down Syndrome) by Patricia Logan Oelwein. Copyright © 1995. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
CHAPTER 16: ANIMALS AND COLORS Most children are generally quite interested in animals, so learning animal words is usually motivating and fun. Learning these words also gives them a vocabulary that leads to recreational reading, since many children’s stories are about animals. Color words, which are functional and basic, are easy to teach in conjunction with animal words. Goal: Your child will: increase her reading vocabulary to include animal and color words; practice reading and comprehending words by playing games; and read the book, Brown Bear, independently. Games and Activities: Practice, Comprehension, and Generalization Animal Lotto Objective 7: Your child will practice reading and comprehending animal words by matching the words to symbols (line drawings) of animals. Materials: Make an animal lotto game by copying and adapting the form in Appendix D-6. Print the names of the animals in the circles; paste reduced drawings of the animals Appendix C-17) on the disks. Color the animals on the disks the same as they are colored in Brown Bear. Procedures: Show your child how to play animal lotto and give him opportunities to play animal lotto with others and alone. When playing with others, more than one lotto game can be used (or your child can play using two or more cards). For example: one player has the color card; the other player has the animal card. The disks with the drawings and color words are placed face down on the table. The players take turns drawing disks, determining whose card it belonged to, and playing it. (See “Playing Lotto,” Chapter 8).You can also combine the color and animal lotto games. Use the color lotto card you made for color lotto. Have your child match the animal (colored the same as the animals in the book) with the color on the color lotto game card. For example, match the bear with brown; the frog with green. When all the disks are matched, the animals are in the correct sequence. Your child can now tell you the story of Brown Bear using the lotto game as a guide.
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