Just wanted to know if the early reader program is good for a child with down syndrome who isn’t talking yet?
Assalamu Alaykum Rabia and welcom to the Forum!
LR is definitely suitable for Down Syndrom, you can just search the forum and find tons of threads about it! There is also a blog you may find useful by Kmum, a Brillkids member, you can check it out here: http://downsyndromeupupupandaway.blogspot.com/
I also did a review for LR here: http://babyalbab.blogspot.com/2011/10/product-review-brillkids-little-reader.html
If you haven’t downloaded the trial version yet, please do so you can get a feel of how LR works: http://www.brillkids.com/free-trial.php
Also, if you are teaching Arabic, you will find lots of files in the free download section here: http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?cat=94 . I am also working on more LR files (vocabulary, poetry, phonics & Islamic knowledge) and will be uploading them very soon in sha’ Allah.
You may also read a book written by Glenn Doman that is very informative, you can order it here if you can’t find it at your local library: http://www.amazon.com/What-About-Your-Brain-injured-Child/dp/0757001866
We’ve been using LR for almost a year with a little girl who has DS. She just turned 4. It is very rare that she will tell you what she knows. Recently, we moved her back to the beginning of LR because i wasn’t sure how much she understood the first time around. When LR v3 came out with the games - we soon discovered that little turkey has been getting nearly as much as my child has. I was pretty confident she knew 40-50 words. I’m betting that she really knows several hundred. She learned to count forward and back to 20, and she is substitizing most numbers to 10. We recently started basic addition and subtraction.