Advice welcome for my Struggling Learner -- speech delay, receptive language disorder. He is 6 but his receptive language comprehension is at about a 2-year-old level (all other levels, except perhaps expressive language, are "good" to "very good"). In regards to "Green Eggs and Ham" (currently reading for Level C, Struggling Learner Curriculum):
This is a book we have already read several times since W was a wee one. He loves the look of it and the cadence of the rhymes. He also likes the trains, cars and animals. However, the "story" is slow to process. He understands that Sam is trying to get the unnamed character to eat green eggs and ham (things he has experience with from many, many breakfasts). However, he doesn't understand why this is a problem for Sam since the concepts of "like" and "do not like" don't quite register (odd, I realize).
I have tried asking him if he likes eggs (he doesn't) to establish "do not like" and contrasting that with things he does like (ie juice, honey-butter, ice cream). But to no avail. Still a "blank". We know the ASL signs for like and don't like and I have even tried asking him if he wants some eggs (he says "no thank you") to highlight that he does not like eggs (an if-then kind of relationship). Again, blank.
Thoughts? Or should I just keep plugging away at it until he has a light bulb moment?
This is a book we have already read several times since W was a wee one. He loves the look of it and the cadence of the rhymes. He also likes the trains, cars and animals. However, the "story" is slow to process. He understands that Sam is trying to get the unnamed character to eat green eggs and ham (things he has experience with from many, many breakfasts). However, he doesn't understand why this is a problem for Sam since the concepts of "like" and "do not like" don't quite register (odd, I realize).
I have tried asking him if he likes eggs (he doesn't) to establish "do not like" and contrasting that with things he does like (ie juice, honey-butter, ice cream). But to no avail. Still a "blank". We know the ASL signs for like and don't like and I have even tried asking him if he wants some eggs (he says "no thank you") to highlight that he does not like eggs (an if-then kind of relationship). Again, blank.
Thoughts? Or should I just keep plugging away at it until he has a light bulb moment?
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