I just have to say this. Your Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) is a total frimpin' idiot. how in the H does he think that learning sight words is teaching V nothing about language? How many babies learn that the word 'bottle' means they get a drink? How many respond to this by age 6 mos? They cannot say it but they CAN understand and respond to it. Heck, I have known kids who were saying what sure as sugar sounded like 'baba' if they saw a bottle by age 5-6 mos. Not brilliant child prodigies, kids that are normal in intelligence.
How in the world would ANYONE learn language if they had to learn the letters before the words? Maybe not writing the letters but they learn the meanings and then they start to put some meaning to the letters - to put a sound to the spoken letter name, then to put the sound to the written letter.
There is no relevant MEANING to the letters and the pictures that V is drawing whne he writes/copies the letters for the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP). He is simply attempting to copy a what may seem like a scribble to him. Even if you learned to READ by phonics, you already knew the meaning of words because you learned those through life. If you didn't know the meaning of the word, then you would have NO relevant meaning to assign to the word, and even less to the individual letters.
Either this man is not properly trained to work with children as young as V is, much less as young as his developmental age, he has decided to use some method that he created and this is some experiment that he is wanting to write papers or books about (that is stupid and will never work with ANY child unless they already know the meaning of the words he is wanting them to write), or someone lobotomized all the knowledge he used to have out of his brain sometime between when he learned how to work with kids nad be a certified Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and when he started working with V. I could probably work up a convincing argument for any of these, but in my opinion it is probably the "I want to create my own wheel/method and become famous for revolutionizing Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) for the world because this booooooring way that kids loathe and refuse will give me much acclaim after I bully a few carefully chosen kids through this hideous process.
in my opinion it is time for a new Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and to register a complaint that this idiot is refusing to work with proven methods that are appropriate for V's developmental needs. Even if he is his own boss, you can complain to your insurance co (even if it is medicaid or it is paid for by the state) and to whatever board certifies SLPs.
The ONLY thing that I can see this man's methods accomplishing is to make V actively refuse to ever want anything to do with SLPs, reading, writing and other uses of language, esp written language.
I would probably apologize to V and tell him that you know the man is a booooooooring idiot who is just not smart enough to make things fun and interesting for V. I had a few tdocs and other workers who got really upset when I would apologize to Wiz for their idiocy/stupidity after they had pulled some totally ridiculous thing like this and gotten all angry with him for not dong things their way. Maybe it isn't right, but after I would privately try to work things out with the adult and they continued to refuse to use ANY sense and the basic principles of their field, well, I figured my kid deserved an apology for wasting his (Wiz's) time and effort. I never purposely did it in front of the provider/'expert', but some of them overheard me apologizing if Wiz was really upset or hurt because something the adult did conveyed the opinion that Wiz was the stupid one. I felt Wiz had a right to know that some adults just don't really know what they are doing, and that the adult was wrong when they made Wiz feel bad about it.
How in the world would ANYONE learn language if they had to learn the letters before the words? Maybe not writing the letters but they learn the meanings and then they start to put some meaning to the letters - to put a sound to the spoken letter name, then to put the sound to the written letter.
There is no relevant MEANING to the letters and the pictures that V is drawing whne he writes/copies the letters for the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP). He is simply attempting to copy a what may seem like a scribble to him. Even if you learned to READ by phonics, you already knew the meaning of words because you learned those through life. If you didn't know the meaning of the word, then you would have NO relevant meaning to assign to the word, and even less to the individual letters.
Either this man is not properly trained to work with children as young as V is, much less as young as his developmental age, he has decided to use some method that he created and this is some experiment that he is wanting to write papers or books about (that is stupid and will never work with ANY child unless they already know the meaning of the words he is wanting them to write), or someone lobotomized all the knowledge he used to have out of his brain sometime between when he learned how to work with kids nad be a certified Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and when he started working with V. I could probably work up a convincing argument for any of these, but in my opinion it is probably the "I want to create my own wheel/method and become famous for revolutionizing Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) for the world because this booooooring way that kids loathe and refuse will give me much acclaim after I bully a few carefully chosen kids through this hideous process.
in my opinion it is time for a new Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and to register a complaint that this idiot is refusing to work with proven methods that are appropriate for V's developmental needs. Even if he is his own boss, you can complain to your insurance co (even if it is medicaid or it is paid for by the state) and to whatever board certifies SLPs.
The ONLY thing that I can see this man's methods accomplishing is to make V actively refuse to ever want anything to do with SLPs, reading, writing and other uses of language, esp written language.
I would probably apologize to V and tell him that you know the man is a booooooooring idiot who is just not smart enough to make things fun and interesting for V. I had a few tdocs and other workers who got really upset when I would apologize to Wiz for their idiocy/stupidity after they had pulled some totally ridiculous thing like this and gotten all angry with him for not dong things their way. Maybe it isn't right, but after I would privately try to work things out with the adult and they continued to refuse to use ANY sense and the basic principles of their field, well, I figured my kid deserved an apology for wasting his (Wiz's) time and effort. I never purposely did it in front of the provider/'expert', but some of them overheard me apologizing if Wiz was really upset or hurt because something the adult did conveyed the opinion that Wiz was the stupid one. I felt Wiz had a right to know that some adults just don't really know what they are doing, and that the adult was wrong when they made Wiz feel bad about it.
