[senco-forum] Re Teaching Vocabulary

Graeme

You quote me  'OK words for most are based on sound or an audible =
phenomenon' and commented  'But how are those who have may have one of =
many Auditory problems or disorders supposed to cope?'

I do not suggest that words are 'for most' audible phenomena. I propose
that they are audible phenonmena for everyone - including those with 
APD. You can only hear words. No-one can see them - a word is the complex 
sound pattern which people express to mean something specific. What we
see in writing or print is nothing more than the visual representation of those sounds.   

I did not offer that as opinion or supposition. I offered it the reality 
of language and this reality does not change for people with APD or any 
other difficulty..

As to how someone with APD is supposed to cope with that fact, for fact 
it is, I really have no idea but my ignorance does not in any way change 
this reality.   If anyone can tell us how someone with APD is supposed 
to cope with this reality then that person is surely yourself since you 
have clearly become very literate inspite of  your APD.  That rather 
suggests that you have learned coping strategies which you should be 
sharing with others and particularly with teachers who will be 
confronting children with APD.

I think it would be more productive if you made suggestions as to how 
teachers should respond to children with APD and also how they should 
not respond. You are much better placed to do this then anyone else I 
know.  But having said that, words can still only be heard. They cannot 
be seen.

Best wishes

Eddie Carron