wow - she is awesome your daughter !
So ... I got curious and searched Amazon for critical thinking skills, and came up with tons of activity books! Bought one ...
Remember, it is important to remember to enhance the GIFTS, not just try to catch up the deficits!
Those are great details that she is noticing!
Just have to mention...in our house too, it's always Christmas...at least when it comes to DVD's, lol!
Close consideration of Tuhina brought up pondering of several interesting remarks this weekend ...
1) We were watching the Sesame Street Christmas video (yes, in July). T looked at the closing credits, a snowy street scene, and asked, "How come there is no snow on Oscar's trash can?" (WE had not noticed!). Thinking in Pictures.
2) She remarked that, "KinderCare is sort of open," resulting in a marvelous Floortime-y argument with her father, who insisted that it is either open or closed, it cannot be 'sort of' ... he turned around and drove back by it, only to see that there WERE in fact several cars parked in front (cleaners perhaps, or the Director working on the books) ... after the two of them debated this, I pronounced HER correct, for while they were not open for business, the building was occupied ... Gray-area reasoning. Things are NOT only black and white. Thank you Dr. Greenspan, for bringing this to our attention.
3) "Numbers do not have sounds." (As letters do). OH-kay. It is true, and would be obvious to SOME people, but ... what an interesting observation! So ... is this concrete, or abstract reasoning?
T reminds me of my oldest son. He was, and still is, a very observant child who notices things most people don't. I love how his mind works. This quality will serve your daughter well.I think that is wonderful. I'm so glad you dig all the Greenspan stuff!flip, the thing with Greenspan is, he is dealing with some abstract ideas ideas about thought. The VERY SAME ideas that my SD growing up tried to teach us all, critical thinking skills, abstract thought, and argument. I was not great at it by their standards (say, "Aspie!"), but as I matured I do think much of what they taught kicked in! I was reflecting on that the other night as I read. My parents HATED the idea of such "liberal" leanings in our school!Rita, her measured IQ was only 89. I keep arguing about her drawing parallels where I would not have, and seeing gray areas, as well as details. Her teachers are treating her test scores as if they are MEANINGFUL ... they are to some extent using book definitions. SIGH. New Sped and new classroom teacher, come August. I have GOT to meet with them!