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IEPs are Individualized Education Programs that your school should have set in place for your child. If you don’t have one and need to learn about what IEPs are and what your role is within them, check out this informative link:

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/iep.index.htm

Also, I ran across a blog that I think is excellent. Have a look.

http://writermotherwifeme.blogspot.com/2007/03/saving-world-1-stand-up-for-what-i.html

Hoping all is well in your MERLD World! Take care…Cie

Kids with MERLD have difficulty comprehending the written word. They are too busy trying to figure out (decode) what a word is than they are reading to comprehend a sentence or passage.

Specific reading components:

• Phonemic awareness: recognizing that sounds create words
• Phonics: the relationship between letters and sounds
• Reading fluency: read text accurately and quickly
• Vocabulary development: learning word meaning and pronunciation
• Reading comprehension strategies: strategies to understand. remember and communicate what is read.

What can you do as a parent to help your child’s reading comprehension?

• Read everyday with your child
• Point to words as you read

You want to help your child associate that the word being said is the word that your child is seeing.

Ask questions and make visually oriented comments as you read, taking care to make reading fun and interesting. If you have read about Christopher Columbus, you might say: “That Christopher Columbus (point to his picture if available) was quite the explorer. What kinds of things do you like to explore, Cody?” Be age appropriate.

Remember that if your child can’t read, your child can’t learn to live a quality life in the real world on his own.

Here are some quick facts to explain Martin Luther King Jr Day to your child.

Martin Luther King Jr Quick Facts

Hi everyone! Well, I spent the last six months experimenting with other hosts for MERLD World and after much contemplation have decided to roost here for good. So I am opening this blog back up to comments and posts. You will also find us on Facebook. I sure hope that all of you will continue to follow MERLD World. Thank you so much for hanging in there with me as we begin an exciting and hopefully educational and helpful 2012.

Hi everyone, MERLD World will move to http://merldworld.blogspot.com/ on June 15, 2011. I hope that you will subscribe on the new site. I will be contacting current subscribers as a reminder. The new site will have many more features and will feature all age groups with MERLD. We will have information on both public and private schools for your children and talk to teens and young adults recently diagnosed with MERLD. Please join us June 15. This site will remain online until then, but no new posts will be added. Thank you all for your overwhelming support.  Cie