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| 09/16/2008 I'm looking to talk with other parents who have employed the GF/CF diet for their children with Autism. Looking for 'reasons to' and 'reasons not to'...looking for the medical tests you completed prior to starting such a diet and what those tests told you...looking to hear results, positive or negative, in your child due to the GF/CF diet. email:jklandl@comcast.net 517-668-6318 |
| posted 09/30 I'm trying to read books to help me accommodate my son's special needs at our home school. He is 6 and has sensory integration issues. In case this is of interest to other moms, here are some books that I have found to be helpful: 1) "In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Personal Learning Style," by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. Written for families with children in public schools, this book is critical of traditional teaching methods such as memorization, worksheets, testing, etc. Explains why your child may not be thriving in school because of his or her unique learning style, and explains how to provide what they need at home to supplement their public education. (Example, from page 65, to teach multiplication using movement, have the child walk in a straight line counting out loud with each step. Then do it again having him / her clap on every second number. This can be followed by clapping or jumping or skipping on every third number, etc. In this way, they internalize the concept of multiples in their bodies.) Most helpful chapters included "Bodywise: Making Learning Physical" and "The Inner Blackboard: Cultivating the Imagination in Learning." 2) "Teaching for the Two-Sided Mind: A Guide to Right Brain / Left Brain Education," by Linda VerLee Williams Written for teachers, this book is far more "technical" than Dr. Armstrong's which actually made it fascinating to me. The author backs up her thinking with evidence from extensive research on individuals with brain damage and how it affected their abilities to learn. Includes a chapter "How Do You Think?" in which the reader can figure out whether he or she is an visual, auditory or kinesthetic learner. The second half of the book is stuffed with practical examples and exercises on how to accommodate all kinds of learning styles in a classroom. Most helpful chapters were "Multisensory Learning" and "Direct Experience." Also has a fabulous Topical Bibliography in the back referencing other sources of information. 3) "The Way They Learn: How to discover and teach to your child's strengths," by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias." This is published by the Christian organization Focus on the Family. It is very similar to the approach of the above two books, but is much broader in its scope and not necessarily written for families with special needs children or even kids that are struggling in school. It is a quick read and may be the best book to start with to simply familiarize yourself with the subject. lynda@firebear.com |