From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V9 #245 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, October 20 2005 Volume 09 : Number 245 Today's Subjects: ----------------- hi kitty ["Mayra Faris" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:56:17 +0200 From: "Mayra Faris" Subject: hi kitty Hi ammf@fruvous.com, DE gre es 1.0. 0_% veri.fi.able No study required get your B.A. B.S_C M.A M_S.C M.B_A P_H.D in 2 weeks! c. a. l. l n ,o ,w! --------) 1-.2.0.6.-203-1217 TTYL, George Grisham But, I spent the next three weeks making a piece of simple software for her son to her specifications. While I was at it, I put 4-8 pictures on the screen as well. The simple program was finished and ready for her child to see. As I was presenting it, the other children in my classroom were pushing each other to get to the computer screen to touch that Touch Window and hear the word spoken again and again. I looked at these kids and was amazed. There was no music, no animation, nothing cute about this program at all, just real pictures with real words. I was stunned. I just watched the children. Within 10 minutes, several children who had never said a word in their life, made approximations of several words. I was hooked..i am terribly hungry, do you want to get some food later on?. This program is not intended as a miracle program. It is meant to be a bridge--the bridge from real objects to 2-dimensional photos. It is meant to allow the students to hear the words repeatedly and then in context. It is meant to help start the students talking. This program is not the finished end product, it is a tool. You, the teacher, parent or therapist, are the best communicators. When your student or child looks at you as if to say please Teach Me To Talk use this program as part of the process..6. You know, for the last few months, John's been traveling around the country talking about his positive, optimistic vision for America, talking about his plan to move this country in the right direction..I am not enjoying skiing among the trees at the moment.. EDWARDS: ... more negative attacks -- aren't you sick of it?.Jackie has disliked writing since five weeks ago.. ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V9 #245 ********************************************