[blindkid] Learning those letters!

[Albert J Rizzi]

I am wondering do you have a copy of the braille rap? it is so cute and I
think I got it off this chat list and have used it in my classes with
children of all abilities. I could send it on if you so desire. Peace.

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Marie
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:19 PM
To: Blindkid email
Subject: [blindkid] Learning those letters!

Jack is in a phase of just loving letters right now. He wants to listen to
his Little People ABCs CD all the time and if we are not listening to it he
starts singing one of the songs and asks me to sing it. :)

We got the Scentsational Alphabet book which is nice but he right now he
just wants to hear the letter names and the sounds the letters make (he does
not even open the pages of the book itself) so I got him a Leap Frog toy
that has different modes. One mode just says the letter name. Another mode
says the name, the sound and a word that starts with that sound. There is
also just a music mode and a quiz mode. We usually leave it on one of the
first two modes I mentioned. I added braille labels to every letter so every
time he presses a letter he feels the braille. I am hoping that hearing the
name of the letter and/or sound and feeling the braille will help him to
learn the feel of the letters. I've also added braille labels to my computer
keyboard so whenever he plays a game (which is really not often) he will
feel the braille then too. 

He is averse to anyone doing much in the way of guiding his hands/fingers so
I don't try to make him feel the braille in his books anymore. Instead I try
to model placing my hands on the braille as if that is how I'm reading. 

I also added braille labels to all of our letter magnets that I could get
the labels to fit on. (They won't fit on our leap frog letter sound
magnets.)

Just my latest ideas, would love to hear some constructive criticism. I love
this list for such great ideas. Not everything suggested works with Jack but
all the ideas get me to thinking!

Marie (mother of Jack born May 2005)
See glimpses of life with my determined son who is developing in his own way
at his own time at http://allaccesspasstojack.blogspot.com 
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