Reading

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Hi Cheryln,

Thanks a lot! I will definately try the Hot Dots. It will be more fun, since he is still love kids game with sound.

Thanks again,

Flo.

Autism and Aspergers Treatment From: cherlynmorrison@...Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:10:55 +0000Subject: Re: Reading

Hi Flo! I wanted to recommend something to you that might help your son with reading. Hot Dots is a talking pen system. The pen gives the child immediate feedback on whether they answer a question correctly. You can buy Hot Dots for almost any subject and they start as basic as letter recognition. You can buy Hot Dots on Amazon or teacher stores. They have an entire series of reading comprehension cards that might be perfect for your son. The system is incredible and kids love them because it is multi-sensory. I think the immediate feedback is especially helpful for children with autism. There are also free reading comprehension web-sites you can use that give the child immediate feedback. One I like is www.readtheory.org. Since your son likes computers this might be a way to get him to read. He can read the story and then answer the questions that go with it for immediate feedback on his progress.Hope this helps! I would suggest breaking the sessions up into a time frame you think your son can handle. It may only be five minutes in the beginning. You could even use an If/Then chart with him at first so he could visually see what you are planning. Sometimes that helps my son. Good luck!>> > Dear parents,> > My son is 12 years and he is autistic. I make a goal this year for a better reading skill and spend more time with me reading and do some quality time.> It is a challenge to make him sit down to read books. His only interest is game and computer so far which is good and bad, he learn some languange from there but he become one of them. Talk and act like the character and he has his game imagination in his head when he do not do anything.> He talked about the game by himself and very fascinated. It is really frustated and I ask him to stop. He stop and later he does it again.> > So far he can read and talk in sentences now but his comprehensive is low. > I try a little bit at a time and give rewards and he throw tantrum sometimes. so I think it is more about transition of his schedule.> I need to calm myself in order to handle him which is hard and I try the best to be his supporter.> > It is been a challenge to me since sometimes I do not know how to handle him and it frustated me too.> Try to make schedule again and I need to shut my ear and be peaceful when I handle him. > I rather have somebody to take care of him do the reading camp or something. > > Any suggestion!> > FLo>

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Hi Marcelle,

Thank you.

Love the idea of educational movies. I used the social skill video before.

I used to use the icons schedule. He is reading now. I use schedule for morning routine today and surprisingly he is doing well.

Yes, when my son was little I am scare of him too since he was so hard to handle and lots of tantrums.

After I spend more time with him and give a lot

of reasoning and the consequences, he is doing much better. Especially when his language develops, his tantrum reduces.

Hope you are doing well. You can ask your behavioral therapy for his hitting habit.

So far I never give a time out, he is not following.

I just take his rewards for earning point to his game.

Take care

Flo

Autism and Aspergers Treatment From: cellybellygirl@...Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:15:40 -0700Subject: Re: Reading

hii try to make use of educational movies to allow my autistic son to learn. Perhaps that could help. The only thing i could think of for your son's age would be using subtitles while watching movies. I also find that using pictures for a schedule instead of written words or telling him what's coming up helps too. My behavior therapist and i are working on laminating pages that are divided into two columns with labels, "IF" and "THEN". We are going to put consequences of behavior on there, whether good or bad. Maybe making a rule of so much reading will earn you so much gaming time. I KNOW that will be terribly hard at first for him.My son is hitting a lot lately and i am putting him in the bathroom every time he hits me now. He's still very little but the thought of him hitting me when he is 8 for example terrifies me.I hope this helps you.Marcelle

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Flo Djoe <fkdjoe@...> wrote:

Dear parents, My son is 12 years and he is autistic. I make a goal this year for a better reading skill and spend more time with me reading and do some quality time.It is a challenge to make him sit down to read books. His only interest is game and computer so far which is good and bad, he learn some languange from there but he become one of them. Talk and act like the character and he has his game imagination in his head when he do not do anything.He talked about the game by himself and very fascinated. It is really frustated and I ask him to stop. He stop and later he does it again. So far he can read and talk in sentences now but his comprehensive is low. I try a little bit at a time and give rewards and he throw tantrum sometimes. so I think it is more about transition of his schedule.I need to calm myself in order to handle him which is hard and I try the best to be his supporter. It is been a challenge to me since sometimes I do not know how to handle him and it frustated me too.Try to make schedule again and I need to shut my ear and be peaceful when I handle him. I rather have somebody to take care of him do the reading camp or something. Any suggestion! FLo

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Kind regardsLynda xOn 25 Apr 2011, at 22:05, Flo Djoe <fkdjoe@...> wrote:

Hi Priscilla,

Yes,he is able to read instruction. Thanks. I try to use his interest for reading topic like his game or cooking. Mostly game book is reference, so I use it to ask character and what are they doing?He still love Sponge Bob & square pants, children toys with sound and WII Games and DS game off course.

He like to search Youtube to find the anwser for his game, which I found very interesting. He likes to win and be the no. 1.

He is my only son too.

Yes, I think I expect him a lot to achieve a better skills. It is good and bad.

He starts building sentences the last 3 years after years of effort going to a lot of seminars and therapy.

His reading level is 6th grade. Still have some wording and comphrehension challenge, but indeed thank you for all your info.

Your method is right. I start with number when he was not talking and it works since he likes math. I always find his interest first rather than force him to do something,

it make less tantrum and more interesting for him. So far he loves school, probably the structures and the crowd. He loves the crowd.

He is still in autism classroom with pullout for APE and speech, math with aid. My goal before make him mainstream 100 % but at this point he is not ready.

He is still get lost and lack of focus on things that are not interest him.

Thanks for your support and hope you are all well too.

Flo

Autism and Aspergers Treatment From: prisread@...Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:19:18 +0000Subject: Re: Reading

Is he able to read the instructions for his games? Does he pay attention or ignore the written information on the screen or in the small game book that came with the game? If his interest is games, look for actual game books. These are books that give advice about the specific game he may be playing. These can be found at video game stores, ask the guys who work there. Also check on line for some. Get him involved, you can always preview the book at Amazon to see if too difficult, too easy, etc. re language.What other interest does he have? He may do much, much better with reference type of books instead of story (novel) books BECAUSE of his autism. The factual information is much more soothing than trying to remember make-believe situations and names of made-up people, etc. Attempting to read something that is foreign to his way of thinking can be stressful and that interfers with his reading comprehension. Often novels or stories are filled with lovely language that is NOT concrete. This can make people with autism crazy as the language itself gets in the way of comprehension of the information of the story. What is he reading level? Check with local children's librarian (or back to this group) for more information re specific books. Once you get enjoyment as routine part of reading, you can slowly expand to other books, but he may never like the typical books a lot of early teens like. In fact, he may actually like somewhat younger books due to his developmental delays of autism. (Try Captain Underpants books, silly and fun for a lot of boys)Also, you mentioned that he can talk and act like the characters of his current game. You could definitely use this to your/his advantage. If he has no writing issues (dysgraphia, dislexic, etc.) and likes the mechanics of writing: have him write about a level of one of his games. Have him reverse characters (changing perspective by acting as though he is a different character) and write about that. If the mechanics of writing are getting in the way of his creativity or even comprehension of anything written, have him tell you and you act as his scribe (use keyboard, it's faster). The point is that he has definite interests and I would absolutely make use of them. The bigger point being to help him to see/understand the relavance of comprehension and communication. Rome wasn't built in a day, so be calm and confident. You can do this one step at a time.Priscilla>> > Dear parents,> > My son is 12 years and he is autistic. I make a goal this year for a better reading skill and spend more time with me reading and do some quality time.> It is a challenge to make him sit down to read books. His only interest is game and computer so far which is good and bad, he learn some languange from there but he become one of them. Talk and act like the character and he has his game imagination in his head when he do not do anything.> He talked about the game by himself and very fascinated. It is really frustated and I ask him to stop. He stop and later he does it again.> > So far he can read and talk in sentences now but his comprehensive is low. > I try a little bit at a time and give rewards and he throw tantrum sometimes. so I think it is more about transition of his schedule.> I need to calm myself in order to handle him which is hard and I try the best to be his supporter.> > It is been a challenge to me since sometimes I do not know how to handle him and it frustated me too.> Try to make schedule again and I need to shut my ear and be peaceful when I handle him. > I rather have somebody to take care of him do the reading camp or something. > > Any suggestion!> > FLo>

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Kind regardsLynda xOn 25 Apr 2011, at 22:05, Flo Djoe <fkdjoe@...> wrote:

Hi Priscilla,

Yes,he is able to read instruction. Thanks. I try to use his interest for reading topic like his game or cooking. Mostly game book is reference, so I use it to ask character and what are they doing?He still love Sponge Bob & square pants, children toys with sound and WII Games and DS game off course.

He like to search Youtube to find the anwser for his game, which I found very interesting. He likes to win and be the no. 1.

He is my only son too.

Yes, I think I expect him a lot to achieve a better skills. It is good and bad.

He starts building sentences the last 3 years after years of effort going to a lot of seminars and therapy.

His reading level is 6th grade. Still have some wording and comphrehension challenge, but indeed thank you for all your info.

Your method is right. I start with number when he was not talking and it works since he likes math. I always find his interest first rather than force him to do something,

it make less tantrum and more interesting for him. So far he loves school, probably the structures and the crowd. He loves the crowd.

He is still in autism classroom with pullout for APE and speech, math with aid. My goal before make him mainstream 100 % but at this point he is not ready.

He is still get lost and lack of focus on things that are not interest him.

Thanks for your support and hope you are all well too.

Flo

Autism and Aspergers Treatment From: prisread@...Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:19:18 +0000Subject: Re: Reading

Is he able to read the instructions for his games? Does he pay attention or ignore the written information on the screen or in the small game book that came with the game? If his interest is games, look for actual game books. These are books that give advice about the specific game he may be playing. These can be found at video game stores, ask the guys who work there. Also check on line for some. Get him involved, you can always preview the book at Amazon to see if too difficult, too easy, etc. re language.What other interest does he have? He may do much, much better with reference type of books instead of story (novel) books BECAUSE of his autism. The factual information is much more soothing than trying to remember make-believe situations and names of made-up people, etc. Attempting to read something that is foreign to his way of thinking can be stressful and that interfers with his reading comprehension. Often novels or stories are filled with lovely language that is NOT concrete. This can make people with autism crazy as the language itself gets in the way of comprehension of the information of the story. What is he reading level? Check with local children's librarian (or back to this group) for more information re specific books. Once you get enjoyment as routine part of reading, you can slowly expand to other books, but he may never like the typical books a lot of early teens like. In fact, he may actually like somewhat younger books due to his developmental delays of autism. (Try Captain Underpants books, silly and fun for a lot of boys)Also, you mentioned that he can talk and act like the characters of his current game. You could definitely use this to your/his advantage. If he has no writing issues (dysgraphia, dislexic, etc.) and likes the mechanics of writing: have him write about a level of one of his games. Have him reverse characters (changing perspective by acting as though he is a different character) and write about that. If the mechanics of writing are getting in the way of his creativity or even comprehension of anything written, have him tell you and you act as his scribe (use keyboard, it's faster). The point is that he has definite interests and I would absolutely make use of them. The bigger point being to help him to see/understand the relavance of comprehension and communication. Rome wasn't built in a day, so be calm and confident. You can do this one step at a time.Priscilla>> > Dear parents,> > My son is 12 years and he is autistic. I make a goal this year for a better reading skill and spend more time with me reading and do some quality time.> It is a challenge to make him sit down to read books. His only interest is game and computer so far which is good and bad, he learn some languange from there but he become one of them. Talk and act like the character and he has his game imagination in his head when he do not do anything.> He talked about the game by himself and very fascinated. It is really frustated and I ask him to stop. He stop and later he does it again.> > So far he can read and talk in sentences now but his comprehensive is low. > I try a little bit at a time and give rewards and he throw tantrum sometimes. so I think it is more about transition of his schedule.> I need to calm myself in order to handle him which is hard and I try the best to be his supporter.> > It is been a challenge to me since sometimes I do not know how to handle him and it frustated me too.> Try to make schedule again and I need to shut my ear and be peaceful when I handle him. > I rather have somebody to take care of him do the reading camp or something. > > Any suggestion!> > FLo>

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I think you will really like the Hot Dots. I'm a special education teacher and

use them in my resource classroom and with my son. The great thing about the

pen is it can makes sounds or just light up. I work with a child with Aspergers

that doesn't like the sound so he just puts it on light up mode. My son likes

the sounds so it is good to have choices.

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> > Dear parents,

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> > My son is 12 years and he is autistic. I make a goal this year for a better

reading skill and spend more time with me reading and do some quality time.

> > It is a challenge to make him sit down to read books. His only interest is

game and computer so far which is good and bad, he learn some languange from

there but he become one of them. Talk and act like the character and he has his

game imagination in his head when he do not do anything.

> > He talked about the game by himself and very fascinated. It is really

frustated and I ask him to stop. He stop and later he does it again.

> >

> > So far he can read and talk in sentences now but his comprehensive is low.

> > I try a little bit at a time and give rewards and he throw tantrum

sometimes. so I think it is more about transition of his schedule.

> > I need to calm myself in order to handle him which is hard and I try the

best to be his supporter.

> >

> > It is been a challenge to me since sometimes I do not know how to handle him

and it frustated me too.

> > Try to make schedule again and I need to shut my ear and be peaceful when I

handle him.

> > I rather have somebody to take care of him do the reading camp or something.

> >

> > Any suggestion!

> >

> > FLo

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Excellent. Thanks for posting. The fam and I have been nearly grain free for

nearly 5 months. Lost an amazing amount of weight and feel so so much better. I

was addicted to food and had no idea until REAL food set me free!

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> http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_2_government-health-guidelines.html

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http://www.details.com/style-advice/the-body/201103/carbs-caffeine-food-cocaine-\

addiction

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> " Our government's recommendations were established in the 1970s and have since

been accompanied by an explosion of obesity and diabetes. The advice came about

as early nutrition scientists rallied around a misguided maxim that remains

embedded in the fabric of our attitudes toward food to this day: Eating too much

fat makes you fat. But science never bore out this pre-Galilean view of

nutrition. What is now clear is this: At the center of the obesity universe lie

carbohydrates, not fat. " [second link above]

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> Found here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/88470.html

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Im new to this group, so have patience with me if I don't do this properly.

My youngest (DS) is 7 and will be in the 2nd grade this next school yr. She is

mainstreamed in her reg Ed classroom and is pulled out for extra help in things

like reading and Math. My concern is we seemed to hit a brick wall with her

reading. In kindergarten she stayed on track with her sight words. She knows

the sounds of the letters and can sound out the word when prompted, but does not

do it on her own and hasn't grasped that after she sounds it out to put the word

together. She LOVES books and I'm getting more worried the older she gets with

her lack of understanding in this area. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm

wanting the school to have at least two reading programs for her by the time

school starts and I would like to give them some suggestions. Please help!

Thanks.

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Hi.  

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>I am curious as to what reading program her school is using for her in the spec

ed classroom. I also wonder why you want two programs? There are many ways to

supplement a good program, what with the computer programs that the schools use,

their reading lists, etc.  One decent program will go a long way.

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>There is a big difference in reading programs.  Some teach very basic

phonetical skills.  But they stop at a minimal awareness along with pushing the

sight words and whole language thus many students graduating from high school

seem to be stuck at about a 4th grade reading level (give or take). The readers

that are used are often whole language based instead of phonics based. So you

need to know what the school is using and what they stress to really know what

your child is being taught and how.

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>I have come to believe that some children grasp intuitively the phonetical

structure of our language (to some extent) while other children learn whole

language readily and memorize easily (for a time).  I am convinced that a

strong phonics program will ensure that those who hear and grasp phonics on

their own (like cat, hat, bat) or those who memorize well and pass spelling

tests in the early grades (the infamous Dolch List) will benefit all types of

learners, which includes our children with Down Syndrome. Much of my opinions

were developed years and years ago and while more in depth studies have

formulated my opinions and certain things that I say were certainly validated at

some point... I am not searching or including any data to prove what I have

opinionated (such as the poor reading level of high school graduates) but if you

study the issue you will find similar findings.

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>I use The Writing Road To Reading by Romalda Spalding and believe it is the

most comprehensive program available.  There are many helper programs that are

written to make this book easier for some to use, but if one purchased just the

book, it is do-able as it is.  It is also not expensive. Here is the website

for spalding.  

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> http://www.spalding.org/  

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>This is the book that I have used.  There is an updated book (2012) but I

haven't looked at it.

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>The Writing Road to Reading : The Spalding Method of Phonics for Teaching

Speech, Writing and Reading

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>If you have any questions I would be happy to dialog about this.  Kiersten

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>Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:01 AM

>Subject: Reading

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>Im new to this group, so have patience with me if I don't do this properly.

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>My youngest (DS) is 7 and will be in the 2nd grade this next school yr. She is

mainstreamed in her reg Ed classroom and is pulled out for extra help in things

like reading and Math. My concern is we seemed to hit a brick wall with her

reading. In kindergarten she stayed on track with her sight words. She knows

the sounds of the letters and can sound out the word when prompted, but does not

do it on her own and hasn't grasped that after she sounds it out to put the word

together. She LOVES books and I'm getting more worried the older she gets with

her lack of understanding in this area. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm

wanting the school to have at least two reading programs for her by the time

school starts and I would like to give them some suggestions. Please help!

Thanks.

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Writing Road to Reading.....haven't heard of that in awhile. It is a great

program. I used it 25 years ago for 2 sons who did not have a disability.

Someone told me about it when I started looking at homeschooling. I took a

short class on how to use it. Back then, I think, I just had the book and the

phonogram cards. For me, the selling point was that they introduce the sounds

of letters first rather than the letter names, and they try to incorporate ALL

the senses to learn each phonogram. You hear it, say it, write it, etc., as you

learn/write each one.

The program I used with Josiah (my son with ds) was the son's Reading

program: http://www.stevensonlearning.com/stevenson-reading. It was developed

for special needs kids. A friend told me about it, who was having success using

it with her son with DS. The lessons include: reading, vocabulary, penmanship,

spelling, and grammar. The teacher guide tells you what/how to teach it and

how to include the other subjects into the lesson, using the same words they are

learning or have learned.

Hope you find a program that works well for you and your child.

Shirley

Re: Reading

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>I use The Writing Road To Reading by Romalda Spalding and believe it is the

most comprehensive program available. There are many helper programs that are

written to make this book easier for some to use, but if one purchased just the

book, it is do-able as it is. It is also not expensive. Here is the website for

spalding.

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> http://www.spalding.org/