How can I help my 4 year old daughter to improve her abilities.?
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If you are in the United States, she should be tested for qualification in a gifted education program... extremely bright children benefit greatly from time with peers of similar ability involved in programming targeting their real skill levels.\n\nIf the teachers say that she is too smart for them to work with her, um, what are you paying them (your taxes, etc.) for? Have you spoken with your principal?\n\nI should clarify here that they may feel you are overestimating her abilities, or that you are pushing her too hard. She is a child, and should be allowed to have her childhood, no matter how smart she is. She has a lifetime to learn facts and new skills.\n\nThat being said, don't let them stick your kid in with even older students...she still is 4 years old, and needs to be allowed to be 4. If she's in with older students, her social and emotional development will suffer. She's started a year early already. Don't let the difference in age between her and her classmates increase to a point where she has no real friends.\n\nThe classroom teacher should have centers activities and individual instruction time geared to your child's ability levels. The teacher should be practiced in asking higher-order thinking skills questions for her to answer (Bloom's Taxonomy). When your child gets into higher grade levels, she should be given less skill drill, and more independent projects focusing on those higher thinking skills.\n\nIn any case, start her in music, or art, or dance, or some other lessons involving creativity.\n\nGive her a few regular household chores...many gifted kids spend so much time in lessons that they never learn how to take care of their home.\n\nGive her free time to play on her own.\n\nFill your house with a variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, at all different reading levels. Give her a chance to do the math when you go to the store, balance your checkbook, or are cooking/building something.\n\nGood luck!
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just go slow and teach her.  be kind with your words tho.  good luck
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baby einstine is great for that sort of stuff also you can try making her ask for things it will help her to increase her vocabulary it will also prevent her from having language barriers.
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Read to them and teach them to do things..any simple thing like making a grilled cheese sandwich or sorting laundry ....opens dialog and helps them with the learning process. Besides it can be good quality time together.
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i am 13 years old and my mum cant allways answer my questions so i let her look through my books that i have worked in at school and she seems to pick up the idea and tries her best and i appreciate her for doing that and if she cant help she tells me to ask a teacher because she dosen't quite get the hang of it \nso dont worry about not being clever enough coz you can still learn!! i hope i have helped!!!!!!!
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With out know which impairment the child has I can only offer a generalization.\n\nThink about the activity and which senses it involves.\nWhat do you want the child to learn?\nCan the activity be accomplished using other senses?\n\nThink of it like solving a puzzle and Try imposing the same impairment on yourself and experiment with different ways to achieve what effect you want.
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Ceebra had some great answers. You can also do follow the leader kind of this where they copy what you do. Also you can set up a simple obstacle course where you can encourage them to balance along wide beams, crawl through tunnels, step along stepping stones or in between ladder rungs on the ground. You can put a track on the ground made of masking tape where the children have to walk along the line like a tightrope walker. If you want more physical exertion, try running races (eg "show me how fast you can run (or walk/crawl/fly etc) to the sandpit and back again"!)
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I understand your worry.  How disabled is your daughter?  Is it possible for her to get along in a group home with others with her same condition where they have people to help and monitor the situation? Maybe to start introducing her to prospective situations or people now so that she is familiar with them.  Do you belong to a religious community?  Since I don't know how much help your daughter needs its hard to think of ideas but you are welcome to e-mail me - I will try and help you think of ideas for the future.
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Sounds like a great idea. Just make sure she needs to know how to hit the ball. That way you can help her ;)
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Lots of practise using lots of different methods. Have it written on all his stuff so he recognises it. Write it on paper with him using pens, textas, crayons, paint etc. Get magnetic letters and practise spelling it out on the fridge. Get pavement chalk and write it on the concrete. Spell it out using alphabet cookies.\nYou can dot out the letters and he/she can trace over them.\nYou could hold his hand and help him form letters and "Skywrite" them.\nJust practise doing it lots of different ways. Make it fun and make it frequent but in short sessions so you don't tire him / her out and you don't make him / her resistant to your attempts.\nYour child has to want to do it or they will not succeed.\nFinally, if it's just not happening maybe he/ she is not ready yet and just give them a little time before you start trying again.
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I am not sure what age group you are dealing with. I guess it does not matter, the skill building does. However if your child is in an upper grade and you find skill building things that are a few grade behind, you will need to explain to her what you are trying to achieve, or get creative in hiding it. You may want to look at some of the sites, see what they are trying to accomplish and adjust the content and  the vocabulary. Remember writing is a process, you will need to get the child used to the idea the writing becomes good when you revise it for clarity and accuracy. One thing i did notice with my daughter was  the idea of getting it all together in one step was enough to freeze her in place. The idea, the spelling, the punctuation, grammar, and making it all flow and sound right can be a lot to think about. Do it in steps. Providing a list of correctly spelled  words to refer to can make this easier at first.\nAlso try reading a little and have her write a sentence or two to complete the story, change the ending, and so forth. \nBelow are some links that may help.
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Send her to a practicals tutor. I can offer my services - gratis and without any obligation on either side.
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All of the answers that you have been given so far are good!!  I am an elementary teacher and one thing that I would ask is that you teach your child how to follow directions. You would be suprised how many children have a hard time listening and following simple directions.
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Practice speaking with them, don't feel bad about correcting them.  they can watch TV or movies, listen to audio books. Even going to the basics with grade school phonics - Hope this helps!
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Do somethings little girls like to do. \n1.Play tea party.\n2.Take walks, and talk. Point things like bugs out \nto her. Get messy and make mud pies. Why I think my\nnails are so long. I loved making them.\n3.Arts and crafts= coloring, drawing, painting, pasting.\n4.Put cut out shapes on paper with a glue stick.\n5.Read to her.\n6.Have her read to you. She doesn't know how to read yet,\nbut she can make a story up using the pictures. \n7.Let her help you around the house. Sweeping, picking\nthings up, planting seeds.\n8.Put on some music and dance. My favorite tv commercial\nis of a father dancing with his daughter. \nI used to work with children.
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If she shows significant interest, get her to a teacher. A teacher can inspire and work with them on a level that would help for a child that age. Its great  you're supportive. I'm stoked my folks were supportive of me, now I run a studio, thanks to that little acoustic they bought me in 1979.\n\nAlso if you just are going to teach her yourself, get some chord books and maybe a DVD to help. Pick songs she wants to learn and have her listen to them and practice. Having her ear develop at a young age is very good.\n\nBest of luck.
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-How does your child learn best (visually, orally, kinesthetically)?\n-Is there anything your child is especially interested in?\n-Is there anything you think I should know in partciular about your child?