[blparent] Speech Therapy

Sun Mar 18 22:02:54 UTC 2012

Hmmm, that might have been interesting.  My mom wasn't really a touchy kind 
of person.

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: "Eileen Levin" <eileenlevin at comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:32 PM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Speech Therapy

> Hi Jo Elizabeth,
> It's too bad the speech therapist wasn't a little more creative in
> suggesting that you touch your mother's face to see what movements were
> required for the words.
> Eileen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 3:38 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> 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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