First person to obtain teacher qualification and have Down's Syndrome becomes a teacher

[claricebean]

I posted this on 'In the news', but just want to SHOUT about this man's achievement, so thought I would post a link here too. Hope that's OK.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/718965-Pablo-Pineda

Thats great news, its so nice to see some positive press stories for a change.

here's an interview with him

great reading and all credit to him

Thanks for the link, Hecate. Lovely to here positive stories reported, isn't it.

Thats really lovely to read.

Brilliant.

If you don't do it religiously every day, he won't get it Lingle.As simple as that.
Biggest error made is not to do something consistently enough or long enough.
I did it for over a year before my kid got it and then she did and suddenly we were able to plan and predict (future), consider present and reflect on past.
Doing so in a gross sense helped us when we moved onto more subtle time issues.

Fun deck
Taskmaster sell an entire set of cards that cover pretty much every aspect of language. It's about £300 all in but to buy separately for about a £10 a pack (very pleasing, nicely produced, come in a lovely little flip top tin). Get the catalogue and read more about each as not enough detail online.

I'm trying to find some time stuff.
In the meantime, start with discrete easy to understand chunks of time using the Timetimer.
eg 1/2 hour of tv and then bed
15 mins and then Mummy will read you a sorry
1 hour and then we leave.
(My kids use it on me now when I get lost in MN!)

That waiting in line stuff to vague and unpredictable to control.I'm also of opinion that not everything can and should be expalined. We all have to endure tedious waits in line.It's the way of the world.Why pretty it up and cushion the blow?

I'm off to see if I can get oyu some beahvioural stuff on time.

Sorry! Wrong thread!

Brilliant.

Excellent, and a ray of hope for parents who are so often told that there's no hope of any DS child ever doing this sort of thing.

FANTASTIC! will make sure my kids ( nt and sn ) know about this!