Re: ELE: Limiting Check Out

[Dawn M Sardes <dmsardes@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>]

My daughter is a ninth grade special ed student.  There are many many
reasons why a student is in special ed, not all related to reading.

Niki is aphasic, a language processing disorder.  If people do not speak
slowly to her, the words get jumbled up.  When she speaks, sometimes the
words come out jumbled up (with often some hilarious results--ex: She
once called our jacuzzi bathtub a zuchinni bath).  Reading, however, is
not a problem.

My daughter loves to read--the written word simply makes more sense than
spoken ones do. She likes Shakespeare and understand it; and I am
currently introducing Chaucer (in Middle English).  She can get through a
book in an evening.  Last week she read Lisa Bright and Dark within an
hour.  I do question her about the books to check that she isn't just
skimming and that she has actually read it.

If she were limited to one book in the library, I would complain to her
Media Speialist pronto.

Dawn M. Sardes
MLS Student at SUNY Buffalo
dmsardes@acsu.buffalo.edu

> >We do limit,...the special education students to one
> >book (others may check out three), and steer them heartily to the picure book
> >shelf.

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