Symbol recognition?

Question

I am an ABA therapist working with a 7 r old girl who s partially verbal, extremely advanced receptive and intraverbal skills. She has always had trouble with visual performance (jigsaw puzzles and block designs are hard, but she can label and masters pictures quickly). However, we are hitting a brick wall when it comes to learning colors, numbers and letters both receptively and expressively. We have tried everything! Everyone's frustrated, the consultant, her mom, me, and of course the little girl is frustrated! Any ideas at all??

Answer 1

Use a picture board plus language.

Teach her sign language & see if that medium will help her to learn the symbols better!

Answer 2

have you tried various sensory activities such as sand paper, shaving cream, stencils, tracing the letter on her hand with your finger, play dough....for letters numbers--

consider teh possibility of dyslexia

can she match colors-are you sure she is not color blind-

use finger paint, colored fun foam, silly string, play dough so she can squish the colors while naming them