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The Game and Jacob...

At the time of the footage Jacob was 41/2 years old and was not potty trained yet. He has been diagnosed with a condition called "Sensory Integration Disorder" (SID), and also has "Expressive Language Disorder" (ELD). It is quite possible that the SID contributed to his language difficulties.  His intelligence is normal to high, and has no fine motor issues. At one time Jacob had a very difficult time understanding his environment, and spent a great deal of his time having raging fits. Due to a family who have loved him and supported him through that difficult time Jacob has become a very sweet and loving child who rarely acts out! Jacob is on a restricted diet, which has also helped him feel less stressed.

Jacob learning game May 20

Learning how to play the game has been slow because he has Sensory Integration Disorder, but Jacob has been taught his colors, shapes and many of the prepositional words used when playing the game. The increased time spent playing with the game pieces taught him what "under", "on", "in", "beside", and "behind" are. We are now seeing more verbal interaction from Jacob, and a greater confidence level. He is now attempting to initiate conversation.    

Sam & Game June 26

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Sam is a young man in grade two, who is struggling to learn how to read. The reading problem became apparent shortly after he began grade one. Sam's mom is trying to get him to play the game 10 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for one month to see if it will increase his awareness of the rules while reading.

The following are the results:

Sam only completed three weeks of the program due to illness but before final testing even began, results could be seen. Sam organized his thoughts quicker and more accurately and was able to remember strategies to sounding out words without being reminded.

In the areas that Sam was tested (Dolch Pre-Primer, Dolch primer, number words, and color words) there was a 10% improvement of word recognition.

Sam & Joe Interview June 28

The day the program ended we had a party. Sam’s brother Joe (Gr. 6) was invited. We spent the morning playing the game and trying to beat each other!

Irene Interview June 28

Mom has been very impressed with progress that has been made in the three weeks that Joe has been playing the game. So much so that mom cancelled private tutor as well as pull out program in grade 2 class!

Patty Endorsement July 9

The results that Patty’s Autistic daughter has made in the past year and a half while playing the game and being taught her basic math skills are as follows:

Prior to working one to one with Patty’s 9 year old daughter, she was unable to add the simplest of numbers ‘1+2= ‘. She was 41/2 years behind in math.   We began working on addition and subtraction facts as well as recognizing 2 and 3 digit numbers, using the game to simulate her before a great number of her lessons. She progressed very quickly and soon was being encouraged to learn her multiplication tables. (which she thought she would never learn!) We moved from multiplication to division, and soon found ourselves borrowing, carrying and doing fractions (A hard concept for an autistic child). She is now entering grade 6, but will start gr. 4 concepts in Sept. She has completed 3 years of math in just over a year and a half.