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From Kaufman Children's Centre for Speech & Language Disorders Website
http://www.kidspeech.com/index.html
Contents
| Introduction | Thank You | 1997 Membership Fees Due |
| Internet Web Site | Uncoming Meetings | Shape Up |
| McDonald's Mini Beanie Babies Raffle | Summer Fun | Gym Stars |
| We Won!!! | Message from Sharen Heath |
To the 6th issue of the Lanark, Leeds & Grenville Chapter of O.A.F.C.C.D.’s Newsletter!
Hope you are having a safe and fun summer!!
Inside this Issue you will find:
I would like thank Sharen & Alison for making the long trip down to speak to us in May.
I would also like to thank Eleanor Newman of the UCDSB for speaking to us at our June meeting about the new education funding model and the IPRC process.
Thank you!!!
Membership Fees and donations are currently our only source of operating funds. Your membership Fees are very important to us and we need you to send your membership fees as soon as possible. If you have not yet joined, please do so as soon as possible. The Annual Membership Fee is only $15.00 ($5 of which goes to the local Chapter) . So please pay today!!
NOTE: Fees will be waived upon request.
Please complete and send this notice to make sure that your membership information is correct. Return to OAFCCD, Sharen Heath, 13 Segal Dr., Tillsonburg, Ont., N4G 4P4
Name: ___________________________________________________________
Address:_________________________________________________________
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Phone:___________________________________________________________
Parent: ___ Professional: ___ Specify:______________________
New Member: ___ Renewal: ___
NOTE: Membership Fees can now be paid at the local Chapter level. Please contact Susan or Connie for more information or to make a payment.
Be sure to visit our Web Site at
http://www.cyberus.ca/oafccd/lanark
Here you will find information on Our local chapter
September 16, 1998
7:00 p.m.
Smiths Falls Recreation Center
Room # 3 (upstairs)
77 Beckwith St., N.,
Smiths Falls
Special Note:
Early Early Bird Draw for first
set of Beanie Babies will done.
Please return tickets stubs
and money before or at this meeting.
October 21, 1998
7:00 p.m.
The Shepherd Centre on the Lower
Level of the Comstock Building
(across from the hospital),
84 Emma St., Brockville
Guest Speaker:
To be announced
Everyone is Welcome to attend!
For more information phone Connie Beckett at
(613) 284-1227
1. Use books, pictures, and/or objects to determine how many shapes your child recognizes (Give me the circle.). How many shapes can your child name (What shape is this?)? After your child knows the basic shapes, such as circle, square, and triangle, teach him/her a larger repertoire of shapes or shape-related vocabulary, such as round, straight, line, dot, heart, star, rectangle, diamond, and oval.
2. Take a walk with your child around your house, searching for square objects; round/circular objects; and then triangular objects. Take a walk around your yard or neighbourhood and help your child find shapes in his/her daily environment.
3. Teach your child the song and gestures for The Wheels on the Bus. Find as many objects as you can that are round. Show and tell your child how circles are round. Compare them to squares and other shapes that have straight lines. What would happen if a bus had square wheels?
4. Have fun playing with blocks with your child. Ask your child to help you find (match) an identical block like the one you hold up. Can your child find a: square block; a rectangle block; a triangle block; a circle/round block? Can your child name the shapes of the blocks he/she has used? Have your child sort the blocks by shape, size, and colour.
5. Make a snack of kabobs on a toothpick/stick using cheese, meat, and/or fruit cut into shapes, such as a square of cheese, a cherry tomato (circle), a triangle of watermelon or meat, a melon ball (circle), or a banana (circle).
6. Help your child use cookie cutters or household objects, such as bottle tops, plastic knives, or popsicle sticks, to cut out different shapes with play dough. Cut out "foods" of different shapes: donuts, pizza, an ice cream cone, and pancakes.
7. Take a large piece of construction paper or tag board and put a circle at the top. Take out old magazines and look through them with your child, finding as many items as possible that are circular. Help your child cut them out and glue them on the paper to make a circle collage. Do the same activity for squares and triangles.
8. Have your child see how many round/circular objects he/she can find in your house or in a given room in 5 minutes. Help your child talk about how these objects are the same and different. Do the same activity with each shape.
9. If your child is older, see if he/she can follow directions with a marker and a paper: a) ask your child to make a circle; make a blue square; b) give him/her step-by-step verbal directions to make a robot or a snowman; c) give him/her a paper with pictured objects, then give him/her directions, such as "Put a circle around the _____." "Put a line under the _____."
10. Make absurd statements and true statements about the shapes of common objects (Buses have square wheels). See if your child can recognize if your statement is silly or true. If it is silly, can your child tell you why it is silly? Encourage your child to tell you true and silly statements to decipher.
11. Have fun doing things in your daily environment that involve shapes: fly a kite; make pancakes; make a snowman; play ball; play hopscotch. Point out all of the shapes to your child.
12. Put different shapes in a bag. Have your child reach in and see if he/she can name the shape by touch only and no peeking.
13. Cut out several different shapes and place them on the floor. Give your child directions to follow with the shapes: touch the square; turn over the circle and the triangle; put the star under the chair.
14. Place several different shapes out on the table. Ask your child to close his/her eyes. Remove a shape, then ask your child to open his/her eyes, and see if he/she can tell you the missing shape. If you remove two shapes at once, can your child name both of the missing shapes?
Suggested Books for parents:
Discover Shapes by F. Audry-Iljic and T. Courtin
Spot Looks at Shapes by Eric Hill
What Am I? Looking Through Shapes at Apples and Grapes by N. Charles
Wing on a Flea by Ed Emberley
Look Around: A Book About Shapes by Leonard E. Fisher
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban
What Shape? by Debbie MacKinnon
Fire Engine Shapes by Bruce McMillan
Freight Train by Donald Crews
Shapes by John Reiss
Anne Geddes’ Shapes by Anne Geddes
Have Fun!
This fundraiser will help offset the month to month cost of running our Organization. This includes postage, printing, telephone costs and many other costs.
Please contact Susan Richards (613) 283-3709 if you would like to sell tickets. You can also contact Susan if you need more tickets to sell. Looking for people willing to sell tickets at malls, fairs, craft shows, home shows etc. Please call if interested.
We also have a Free Dinner for 2 at the Tollgate Restaurant in Bells Corner for the person who sells the most tickets.
| Ice Cream in a Zip-Loc
Amaze your friends! Amaze your family! Amaze yourself! YUMMY! (Can also use whole white milk -add 4 t. sugar) Ingredient amounts and directions are for one serving. Ingredients 1/2 c. *purchased* chocolate milk
Directions 1. Put the chocolate milk, sugar and vanilla into
the sandwich bag
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SPARKLE SALT DOUGH
This is a creative clay with flash! Make several batches in different colours. What You Will Need:
Pour the water and Food colouring into a medium-sized
pan. Stir in the salt and cornstarch. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly
until the mixture thickens and gathers together. Take the lump of dough
out and wrap in a paper towel. When it is cool, knead for a few minutes.
Use as you would any modelling clay or playdough. Keep in fridge in ziplock
bag.
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| Ziploc Bag Crafts | ||
| Feelie Bag
What you need:
What to do:
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Slate Bag
What you need: Tempera Paint (Thick paint such as fingerpaint works
best)
What to do: 1. Place paint in bag and smooth out bubbles.
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| Rainbow Stew
What you need: 1/3 c. sugar
What to do: 1. Cook until thick
Tip: Put 2 colours in one bag and let the kids mix
the colours together to make a new colour e.g.: yellow + blue = green
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| Goop, Gunk, Slime & Flubber | ||
| Goop
What you need:
What to do:
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Slime
What you need:
What to do:
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| Gunk
What you need:
What to do:
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Flubber
What you need:
What to do:
Tip: This is a safe chemical reaction for the kids
to see. Use a glass bowl for solution B so the kids could see the flubber
form in the bowl. It just becomes a big "cloud" of rubbery stuff.
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| Bubbles Galore | ||
| Best Bubble Solution
What you need:
What to do:
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More Bubbles
What you need:
What to do:
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| Beluga Bubbles
What you need:
What to do:
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Iridescent soap bubbles
What you need:
What to do:
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| Fancy Bubbles
What you need:
What to do:
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Coloured Bubbles
What you need:
What to do: 1. Dissolve soap in warm water
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| Computer Fun | ||
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For those of you with computer hooked up to the World Wide Web, here are some interesting sites you might want to visit on a rainy day. You can visit the Disney site at http://www.disney.com. They have their own Interenet guide called DIG where you can search for anything from endangered species, to sports and games to countries. It is worth a look. Another site you might want to check out is http://www.kidsdomain.com. At this site, you will find crafts for specail holidays, or download some educational games such as Magic School Bus, as well as games just the pleasure of playing. They have something for all ages and personalities. |
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We have realized over the last few sessions that we have several children in our club who might benefit from a smaller group setting with more one on one instruction. We also know that there are other children in the community that might be interested in such a program.Back to top of pageWe like to offer these children a separate class time with a ratio of approximately 3 students per instructor. We have tentatively booked time for this class on Mondays from 5:15 – 6:15. The cost for the15 week fall program would be $135.00 plus a $15.00 yearly registration fee.
We are able to offer patient, caring and individualized attention to participants. However, we do not yet have specialized equipment to accommodate every disability. There may be some children whose needs we may not be able to meet at this time. With input from parents, child and coaches each child's needs will be considered to decide if he or she will be able to participate in our program before registration takes place.
Feel free to phone me to set up an appointment to tour the gym and discuss if your child would benefit from a gymnastics program.
Amy Cooke
Head Coach/Club Director
On Thursday June 25, 1998 at 4:00 p.m. the O.A.F.C.C.D made an excellent presentation to the Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) expressing our concerns over the absence of Speech & Language Pathologists (SLP) as part of the Educational Team in the proposed Special Education Delivery Model.Following the presentation there was heated discussion between the Trustees on the proposed elimination of the 3 Speech and Language Pathologists still employed in the Eastern part of the board. Then Trustees with a 6/4 vote decided to keep 1 SLP in each of the 3 Regional Educational Centers (east, west & central). This is a 100% increase for the area of Lanark, Leeds & Grenville but a 50% decrease in the Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry, Prescott & Russell area).
I would like to thank Genese Warr-Leeper, Ph.D., Reg (CASLPO), CCC-sp, FASHA a Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Western Ontario for 20 years will be making the presentation. Also thanks to Ann Meltzer of The Ontario Speech Language Association (OSLA) who spoke to the Board Trustees to express her associations concerns.
I would like to thank all the parents, families, professionals and concerned persons who phoned, faxed or wrote their local trustees to express their personal concerns. I would also like to thank the many parents and children who drove all the way to Brockville and then navigated their way across the picket lines setup by the High School Teachers to attend the meeting. There was at least 40 to 50 people sitting in the gallery. The reporter from the Smiths Falls Record News told me that she has not seen that many people in the gallery during her several years of reporting. We all wore silver ribbons in support and awareness of children with disABILITIES.
I would also like to thank the trustees who voted for maintaining the SLPs. They were Trustee Buckland, Trustee Anderson, Trustee Timmons, Trustee Spaulding, Trustee Schoular and Trustee Thompson.
The battle is not over yet! 3 SLP to serve approx. 3000-4000 children is not enough. We must keep on the school board, Ministry of Education and Provincial Government to increase funding to Special Education especially for Speech and Language Pathologists.
Finally, I would like to thank Deanna Garton who sits as the OAFCCD representative on the Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC) for all her hard work!
The last six months have seen significant changes in publicly funded speech and language services. On the plus side all Preschool Speech and Language Initiative Plans have now been approved and a significant expansion of preschool services is occurring. On the other side there has been significant changes in Education and resulting confusion about the status of speech and language services.
Taking a proactive approach, Sharen Heath, President of OAFCCD sent letters to all new amalgamated School Boards. However, we were still disappointed to hear about proposed cuts to Speech-Language Pathologists by five school boards. By the end of June only one Board had actually reduced positions, but it was made clear that the under the new education funding model, speech and language services were still vulnerable.In an effort to address the issue at the provincial level, Sharen wrote and requested a meeting with Dave Johnson, Minister of Education. In early July, Sharen received a response inviting her and members of OAFCCD to attend a meeting with Lynn MacDonald, Assistant Deputy Minister, Elementary/Secondary Policy, and subsequently with the Minister. Both these meetings took place and we can assure members that the Minister has been informed of OAFCCD concerns.
The Minister believes that OAFCCD concerns, about the inadequacy and inconsistency of speech and language services across the province, have been addressed by the new Funding Model, and that we need to allow more time before making conclusions about service levels. In addition, he believes that parents and taxpayers must continue to make the school boards accountable for their actions at the local level.
On a more positive note, the Minister reiterated the Ministry of Education and Training’s continued commitment to the Interministerial Guidelines on Speech and Language Services, and further agreed that there was a need to review the Guidelines and Policy documents that relate to the division of responsibilities between Ministries. We are expecting to receive more details soon. Mr. Johnson’s office will also be providing OAFCCD with clarification of the new Education Grants and how they may be used to provide speech and language services.
OAFCCD will also be receiving more information about the Ministry’s expectations for each student, with extra support needs, to have an Individual Education Plan (IEP). When this information is available we will be providing members with the information and tips on how to prepare an effective IEP.
Please continue to keep your Chapter leaders, SEAC reps and the President informed about your service concerns at the local level. We need details of problems at the local level in order to be effective in advocating for changes at the provincial level.
Sharen Heath - President
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