Wednesday, 16 May 2007

Tongue Twister

About 6 months ago (probably more) we were trying to get Matthew to say tongue twisters, making a game of it. He was not amused, finding it impossible. One of the things we were trying to get him to say was Super-Cala-Fraja-Listic-Expi -Ala-Docious. He just walked off in his usual frustrated way, could not get his mind around the words. Was it the only the fact that his verbal processing was poor that stopped him that time?
Last night out of the blue, nobody had mentioned it, it popped back into his mind. Slightly wrong- Super-caja-flaja-listic-expi-ala-docious, -so he had remembered it, only his auditory processing/memory got it mixed up at the time. I corrected him, which he didn't like one bit, but he kept saying it over and over (telling me not to interupt, as I kept correcting). He got his mouth around it in the end, stating well I've learnt that now.

Incidentally his school have sent 3 song sheets home for him to learn (out of 6-gulp). Schools these days are so exclusionary, and they think by giving him the sheets they are including him the class activity. (That is not my definition of an inclusive school.) These children cannot be included in such activities that they simply cannot learn the words and they know it. We'll probably have another school concert of watching Matthew yawn his way through it. He might surprise us, we live in anticipation these days.

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