The First Client - J
J was diagnosed with congenital deafness at nine months and diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder at two and a half years. He was learning sign language at nine months and had a cochlear implant at eighteen months. J was discriminating among all English speech sounds by age four and producing all English speech sounds by age six.
J's progress with GrammarTrainer
- In June, 2003 started on GrammarTrainer I, lesson 1
- By November, 2003 doing Grammar Trainer I, lesson 18
- By March, 2004 doing GrammarTrainer2 Grammar Trainer II , lesson 1
- By November, 2004 doing GrammarTrainer2 Grammar Trainer II , lesson 25
- By September, 2005 doing GrammarTrainer3 Grammar Trainer III , lesson 23
- By January, 2006 doing GrammarTrainer4 GrammarTrainer IV, lesson 1
- By April, 2006, completed GrammarTrainer4, now done with all four levels, all 109 lessons, and hundreds and hundreds of exercises.
As a result of GrammarTrainer
J has now mastered:- singular versus plural nouns
- adjective phrases like bigger than/as big as/not as big as/the biggest
- most verb tenses: present, past, future, complex tenses with past participles
- all the pronouns: he/him/his, she/her, it, they/their, I/me/my, you/your, we/us/our
- a variety of prepositional phrases
- a variety of time phrases like last week, in three days, since, until
- a variety of complex sentence structures (e.g., How scared the girl is depends on how high she climbs.)
- a variety of complex questions (e.g., What did the boy take out from behind the box?)
- reported speech with first-, second- and third-person pronouns (e.g., He asked me which of her shoes I tied.)
Every day speech
- expresses many new, complex ideas
- more responsive to people's questions
- asks more questions
- sample question after nine months with GrammarTrainer: "Why did Daddy lock the porch door with the key?"
- after a year and a half: "If I don't do 15 minutes of reading, then the teacher will not know."
- after two years: "Remember, earlier you told me I can have ice cream."
- after two and a half years: "Should I have shared with Kyle?"; "If I keep downloading, then what happens?"; "Are you going to ask me what I like to do before I go to bed?"