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Thanks for the idea, and for the response. Unfortunately, his hearing has been tested by at least three competent specialists -- and it's fine. He appears to have no discernable autism or retardation. He does learn very slowly, *painfully slowly,* but my theory is that it's only because he missed th...

Wow, I had just barely finished making this post, about my own Haitian student, when I saw yours. http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=5146 I'm working on getting him conversational, for starters -- you can always worry about pronunciation and phonics after he can at least communica...

I'm tutoring an 11 year old foreign student in the USA, who has never been to school or had any sort of education before now. He didn't even know how to count past 10 in his native language, and never had much interaction with other kids. So I have had to start from a pre-pre-school level with him a...

Some people, like me, do it without even realizing it. When we lived in the Netherlands, my closest English-speaking friends were Scottish, Canadian, and Australian. My husband could tell which one I was talking with on the phone within 5 seconds, just by listening to what accent I took on when spea...

There's a new program called "Passport to Teaching" which enables people with Bachelor's degrees to also get their teaching certificates without having to go back to school. It's by the Dept. of Ed, and it's such a new program that it's not that well-known yet. There's a link: www.abcte.org that has...