Our homeschooling social group went to a local science
museum today. My boys went off with
their friends and another mom, while my daughter Hailey and her friend went in
another direction with me. Socially, it
was a great experience for all of my children as they really like the kids they
hung out with today. However, on an
academic level, I did notice how Hailey’s auditory processing disorder made its
presence known, yet again.
This particular science museum has added a whole area with
holograms that speak to you as you view the displays. This is an amazing thing to see and really quite
fascinating on its own. It would definitely
be an awesome value-added experience, EXCEPT, each display is so close to the
others that you hear about 4 or 5 of them all going off at the same time. Poor Hailey with auditory processing disorder
kept saying how terribly noisy it was in there and how distracting the speaking
holograms were. So all that money and
technology that was intended to make the museum experience more enriching, just
made my sweet girl want to hurry out of the exhibit hall, missing more than
half of what was there to see.
I think we long for the old days of museums with displays
and placards to read. Even before Hailey
could read herself, I would read the placards to my children; my one momma’s voice
speaking in the rate they could process while editing out whatever words were
too far above their comprehension level, was much more effective.
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