[blparent] Speech Therapy

Sat Mar 17 21:29:52 UTC 2012

Mine is become sometimes I slur, apparently due to the epilepsy. But of 
course I wasn't diagnosed with such until 19.
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From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Speech Therapy


>I was in speech therapy off and on in elementary school, but it wasn't 
>because I couldn't pronounce words correctly.  It was because the fact that 
>my face remained stiff, and my lips didn't move the way other people's did 
>when I formed the words, bothered my mom.  Learning to talk involves both 
>listening and watching others.  The speech therapists finally told my mom 
>that since I could pronounce the words, there wasn't much that could be 
>done about the way my lips and face moved.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been 
> all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>
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> From: "Tay Laurie" <j.t.laurie at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 2:19 PM
> To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Using the Elimination Communicationmottlefor 
> pottytraining> I was in speech therapy at age four, but for what, I don't 
> remember. Iwas also in OT and PT.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Eileen Levin" <eileenlevin at comcast.net>
>> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 7:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Using the Elimination Communication mottlefor 
>> potty training
>>
>>
>> My husband remembers getting pinched by the folding seat. My mom just 
>> wiped
>> the seat down with toilet paper and laid some TP on the seat. Some stores
>> offer the paper seat covers which are handy if the seat is dry.
>>
>> It was definitely the mess that made potty training a big deal for me. 
>> When
>> my 5 year old still gets his  TH and SH sounds wrong it's really cute. 
>> While
>> I was waiting for his sense of cleanliness to grow in at 3, and cleaning 
>> out
>> the umpty upmth pair of underwear I just felt very   cranky.  !  While
>> cleaning out underwear, the couch and the carpet I developed a theory 
>> about
>> cloth diapered kids and toilet training. Since It's more or less the same 
>> to
>> clean a cloth diaper or a pair of underwear, what's to loose if your kid
>> manages to hit the toilet better than half the time? Also, I couldn't 
>> help
>> wondering if that was why parents sent kids outside so much more in the 
>> good
>> old days.
>>
>> I did ask the school speech therapist about Ari's mispronunciations. She
>> says that those sounds don't develop completely until age 7 and he isn't
>> eligible for speech therapy until then. She encouraged me to work with 
>> him
>> on the sounds but not to push him to be perfect. Funny thing is that he
>> reads the word the perfectly but mispronounces the word the when he is
>> talking. I guess I just have to wait for his desire to talk like everyone
>> else to grow in.  LOL
>> Eileen
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Erin Rumer
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:27 AM
>> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Using the Elimination Communication mottle for 
>> potty
>> training
>>
>> Thanks for that helpful info Jennith.  Let me know how those training 
>> pants
>> work for you.  Do you put diaper covers over the training pants?  My 
>> husband
>> and I too feel that gentle encouragement is key for kids to learn 
>> anything
>> new like this.  Our son may go in and out of being interested in potty
>> training for the next several months, but the more we foster his 
>> curiosity
>> with positive reinforcement, the better.  Just go with the flow!  Okay, I
>> couldn't pass that pun up! GRIN
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Erin
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jennith Lucas
>> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 9:47 AM
>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Using the Elimination Communication mottle for 
>> potty
>> training
>>
>> Erin,
>>
>> I've been doing EC very part time with my 15 month old. I recommend 
>> reading
>> Diaper Free Baby. I read several books but it was the best, most
>> encouraging. My son has been using his Baby Bjorn potty a little.
>> We bought a potty book that we read while he sits on the potty, and have
>> tried to make sitting on it a positive experience. He understands what 
>> it's
>> for, and has even brought it in to the bathroom if he knows Mommy or 
>> Daddy
>> are using the toilet because he wants to join them! EC is messy, there is 
>> no
>> way around it, but the time it takes to put the baby on the potty is 
>> about
>> the same to change their diaper.
>>
>> I still put him in diapers when we go out so I can't speak to the travel
>> potty. If you find something you like, do share!
>>
>> I just ordered some Gerber cloth training pants , so we'll be 
>> transitioning
>> even more to diaper free. We'll see how it goes! The one thing I've 
>> learned
>> with EC is not to have huge expectations and go along with the process. I
>> don't expect him to be fully potty trained next week, next month, or even 
>> in
>> six. Just trying to show him that using a potty is fun and easy and that 
>> he
>> can do it.
>>
>> Jennith
>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Erin Rumer <erinrumer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just wondering who here as tried the Elimination Communication mottle
>>> for potty training their kids and how that went for you? Even if you
>>> didn't use this mottle but had great success, I'd love to hear what
>>> you did. My son Dawson is 16 months now and just starting to show an
>>> interest in potty training. We're not going to even try to get
>>> serious about this since we're moving to San Diego in a week, plus
>>> he's not quite old enough to really control his bladder and bowel
>>> muscles yet. On top of those two things I read that one should never
>>> start potty training when your toddler is in the "no" phase where they
>>> are saying "no" for everything. This makes a ton of sense. I'm
>>> excited that he's aware now of when he goes potty, because 3 times now
>>> he has told me when he just went pee pee in his diaper. He's also
>>> obsessed with a potty training video we have that I just through in
>>> one day for fun and now that's one of the only things he wants to
>>> watch. Dawson loves seeing older kids do things so that's why the video
>> is so intriguing to him.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, please let me know what potty methods and chairs you used while
>>> you were away from home. I have a Boon potty bench that I love and
>>> think will work great for at home, but I'm considering one of those
>>> portable folding potty seats with handles that you can attach to a
>>> public toilet but don't know how well they work. I went out yesterday
>>> with a sighted friend of mine who's almost 2 year old has been potty
>>> trained for about 3 months now and she just hovers him over the toilet
>>> to go pee. Even though I have good proprioception and good aim
>>> usually, this method sounds a little visual and messy if it doesn't go
>> quite right.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Erin
>>>
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