Introduction

I just joined the SCM forum and figured this was the best place to start.   I’m homeschooling 3 school-aged kids, 15, 12, 7, and a 3.5 yr old preschooler.  At least 2 of them, if not more have suspected auditory processing disorders.  We don’t have any official diagnoses yet.  (I was waiting for our new insurance to kick in in August to set up appts. with an audiologist.)  But my 7 yr old has been in speech therapy for a few years and his last therapist could see the processing issues while working with him and included activities to target that as well as actual speech.  She also evaluated my oldest for me because he’s struggled for a long time, but up until the APD came up, I never had anything to pinpoint as a problem to help remediate it.  To add to the mix, my 12 yr old had been tested for dyslexia several years ago and those results were inconclusive–looking back everything she scored low in points also to the auditory processing as well. 

Anyway, I’ve always liked the CM approach, but in the past it didn’t seem to go over well.  My oldest didn’t like to listen to read-alouds very much when he was younger, probably because he had a hard time keeping up, following it, and would get bored now that I look back on it with what I know now.  But after watching the therapist working with and evaluate a couple of them, I noticed that some of the things they did were alot like CM’s methods.  So this school year, I’m wanting to try it again but tweak it enough to help my APD kiddos really catch on and hopefully gain some ground they’ve been loosing.   My high-schooler is going to be the most challenging in that area as it’s late in the game for big changes, and he’s also very behind in some areas (composition in particular) with little time to “catch up”.  But with the CM method and a few ideas from our last therapist, I’m going to see if it gets us anywhere. 

Tracy