Just a quickie response:
Kimberly: I love what you're doing, and your reasoning is the reason I
replied! :) As for RCT: the kid loves it, he hasn't been this excited
about something since we started reading 'So You Want To Be A Wizard'.
He just loves working with me 1:1, and he really does well. I wish I
had more time to do it, and its one of the reasons I took him over the
summer. He built his own roller coaster yesterday for the first time...
took us nearly an hour to get one that the guests would get on, because
his first attempts were 'ultra-extreme' and nobody would ride it. He
wanted to give up, but I wouldn't let him, so we kept building and
rebuilding. I think it helped that I was doing the mousing and he only
had to respond verbally or point. That gave him time to organize and
didn't overwhelm him... And he surprised me: I asked him why the 2nd
hill on a coaster track couldn't be bigger than the first one, and also
what the 'G' stood for.. and he knew both answers! :) It wasn't the
knowing that surprised me... it was the way he easily got it out, and
was very confident. I know he has it in him, and he'd be a great
candidate for a GED if we could just build that confidence. He is one
of many kids that just needs that 1:1 attention as much as possible.
Magi
Kimberly Terrill wrote:
That's the thing. Not that it is important or a big deal- but with 4
people with autism disorders- it's hard to deal with the fact that
they are obviously moons yet called planets. And no one ever knows if
they should be called moons like they are named orplanets becuase the
rules say they are. In the real world, it's not a big deal they are
moons called planets- but in teaching, esp special needs kids- it can
be a very big deal. And this is an educational, teaching list, so I
thought it was okay to mention what things about the game aren't
working in teaching my my kids. We will give it another try. The boys
wanted to play that when you land on a ship instead of automatically
destroying it, you play RPS to see if it is destroyed (which means the
tleport inhibitor got to play RPS twice) I let them, but the next game
we went to the real rules. my 9 yr old now refuses to play. Oh, well.
My ADHDAspie likes Roller Coaster Tycoon- but the computer version.
(not sure if you were talking about a board game version) He actaully
likes Zoo Tycoon. My ADD andother LD kid loved roller coaster tycoon a
lot. He can play it all day on the computer. (did you know they have a
MOON Tycoon?)
Buy my boys all have great imaginations- I always hear kids on the
autism spectrum often don't, I guess I got lucky there. Of course it
usually has to be something THEY want to imagine....
On 8/3/06, *Magi D. Shepley* <magid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:magid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
If I had to guess, the reason would be because the players KNOW
they are
moons and not planets. My own students with special needs,
particularly
my students who have some form of autism would have real problems with
that. They can't pretend that their aren't moons or that they can be
colonized. They want to know why, how, who, when...?????? And
they'll
ask over and over again until you give them the answers they want.
A lot of my kids with emotional issues are that way too (try playing
roller coaster tycoon one on one with a kid with reality issues, ADHD
and poor reading skills!)
Magi
William M. Reed wrote:
> It's a fictional game. If someone had drawn those pictures,
would it
> still make a difference?
>
> It better to pretend you could colonize those moons than to pretend
> their planets?
>
> I don't understand why it's a big deal.
>
>
> Bill
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> St. Joseph Montessori School
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<mailto:wreed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:wreed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
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>
> On Aug 3, 2006, at 9:15 AM, Kimberly Terrill wrote:
>
>> Thanks.... still doesn't explain why they are called planets in the
>> rules when they are realy mooons.... why not just call them
moons and
>> pretend they are colonized....
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