http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRu0HQ5kbk0&feature=youtu.be
Having sat in that exact auditorium being inspired beyond belief, I can tell you that I saw incredibly hurt children, incredibly young reading books that I would probably struggle with. They used communication boards to talk with us about the books, but I can't quite get the vision of a severely involved 5 year old talking with a parent from Tokyo about the complexities of plot in Shogun.
Think these children will have a problem with complex thought? Janet's right, we only give what we THINK our children can understand. We THINK they are naive because their speech may be limited to short phrases. We Think they need endless mindnumbing repetition because that is what specialists have told us for years. Lucas can say many words that he can read like "Gorbachev". Teaching a sensory process such as reading through the visual pathway combined with the auditory sensory input of hearing the words, starting at infancy, is the best way to get the motor output of speech.
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