Woo Hoo. It Really Works!

[Ruth Gray]

I have no idea if this the right place to post this but I am bubbling about this. I am a lurker here but read all the time. The posts are inspiring and make me think. My 10 year, old hard of hearing son, who I was told would never learnt to read by osmosis cos of his hearing loss is reading! He learnt from Runescape and his x box he plays daily. He read off the screen to me today cos he wanted to tell me what it said. I had grief over this from our LA ( I am in the UK) and relatives. I was told he needed specialist reading schemes. I wavered and bought one then got rid of it the same day. I inwardly worried and fretted but kept reading here and I learnt to trust him and it worked. It could have been now or in another 6 years but it has clicked and he is so happy. He isn't my first unschooled child and they can all read too so my surprise is a bit ott really but the others don't have his difficuties with hearing sounds but he figured it himself.

Ruth

[Sandra Dodd]

Woohoo!!!

Very, very cool. This is a good place to have put it, but I'd also like to add it to my reading page, if that's okay with you. (Somewhere around here: http://sandradodd.com/reading )

[Ruth Gray]

Yes I would love you to add it to your reading page. Thank you.

Ruth

[Katherine]

Yay Ruth. Cool! I wear hearing aids starting at 5 and went to school. Still I learned to read at 8 well before any extra intervention. I had speech therapy in 3rd grade (when I would have been 9 or 10 .. can't remember what end of 3rd grade it started), and I only had a week maybe 2 of it. Reading became my foot in the door so to speak for exploring many people's lives I didn't have access to any other way. I started with biographies, and they weren't assigned materials. I just got them from the library for myself.
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[Ruth Gray]

That is great Katherine. Ds hearing loss is gradual so he learnt to speak but his hearing had a noticable dip last year and he still wasn't reading. Here in the UK aids are not given until the loss is at a certain extent which is crazy cos his is bad enough that he cannot hear sounds or some words at all but can still communicate. I read horror stories of non or poor HOH readers, got told all sorts of doom and gloom, agonised over it for months and finally decided to carry on as before just living life. My gut feeling was he would be fine. it was hard tho. Wondering if I was right.This forum help me through a lot of dark moments:)

Reading became my foot in the door so to speak for exploring many people's lives I didn't have access to any other way. I started with biographies, and they weren't assigned materials. I just got them from the library for myself.

Ds has realised that. He cannot follow books when being read to and hated it. Who wouldn'thate it if they cannot hear the story? Now he can read for himself. Wow:)

[Deb Scudder]

That is so great! I'm really pleased for you both :) xxx

[Ruth Gray]

Thanks Debs:)