BARB PURVIS, Education Consultant:
Kids who have combined vision hearing loss, it's a given they're going to need more time to process information. How long you wait is going to depend on the child, and what other kinds of challenges they may have, and just what their conditions are, what if they have physical challenges along with the with the vision and hearing, and whether there are any other medical challenges going along with that.
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So you need to think about your pace, again think about involving that child, thinking about what it's like from the child's perspective and all I can say is as we said already most cases slow down just slow down. Some times to use wait time are if you're doing something that the child already knows, stop and wait and see if they know what's coming next and they may start to do it themselves. They may initiate which means, oh maybe they don't need as much help as I've been giving them. Okay so you can stop and wait and see what they do, wait and see if they're anticipating. And then you know again this is where you start to read their signals, and read their language, had they stopped, are they waiting. Do you remember when the little girl Susan with the, you are my sunshine you know, she let them know that lets her, the interventions know that she was ready for something else.