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Observation: OH! it's like learning a foreign language

breezy0629breezy0629 member
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So, DS reads, that's not news to most on this board. He was SUPPOSED to be having issues with comprehension, but has blown us all out of the water on that one. Anything that is even remotely age appropriate, he seems to at least understand better than he should. 

Well, we visited a friend over the weekend who was flabbergasted when DS pronounced the title of his current read correctly, "The Tao of Pooh". Being fluent in Spanish, he decided it would be fun to give him a few commands in spanish and point/gesture his way to understanding. DS found it pretty darn funny, but didn't in any way understand what he was talking about.

But, when we were doing paperwork for the MRI at the hospital, they had signs posted everywhere in English/Spanish. So, DS proceeds to PRONOUNCE...... at least somewhat correctly most of the signs he passed.  Now, I'm not fluent in Spanish, but I know how most of it is supposed to sound & what he was saying didn't sound like a southern accent version of Spanish - English sounding words. 

So, I stopped to think...... This is how he learned to read + comprehend in English. Because of the coding of words, which he GETS, he picked up pretty quickly, and with some help on making connections to questions he started getting the comprehension piece. He learned to read English much in the same way anyone would learn a second language. 

That was just very interesting to me.  

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Re: Observation: OH! it's like learning a foreign language

  • ILoveBoysILoveBoys member

    That's a good observation momma. :)

    .....Any results from the mri yet? Thinking about you guys today.

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  • breezy0629breezy0629 member

    Interesting stuff Auntie. I think it was a really good arguement that sometimes it DOES snow in spring or fall. haha!!! I forsee a lot of laughter in my future.

    I was going to throw out my 'not social comprehension' piece, but then that gets into the fact that NONE of it is age appropirate anyway, so who's to judge what he should/shoudn't comprehend quite yet anyway. *shaking my head*

    He's just a stinkin' good coder - decoder. That's all it is. He could fool the pants off an expert even.... if they're not looking for it. Because all he does is look for the answer in the text. As far as kid books go (we're talking curious george, the harder seuss stuff, etc... i really try not to let him get his hands on much harder stuff than that)..... the types of 'comprehension' questions they ask or suggest to ask are right there. 

    'Where is his mommy?'.... well this picture has longer hair, that means it's a girl... and this one has long hair too, but she is shorter... so that narrows it down to 'this one' 

    You can see those wheels turning, but really and truly, the answer was the OBJECT name of MOMMY. it's right there. We taught him what He and she were and what a mommy was. He remembered it.  

    Try to argue that with certain individuals & they argue right back that EVERYONE learns that way.......  i beg to differ. 

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