http://blog.xanthippas.com/2008/04/14/aspergers-and-reading/ A place for raw, uncensored ideas to be hurled about, recklessly... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.xanthippas.com/2008/04/14/aspergers-and-reading/#comment-739 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:15:41 +0000 http://xanthippaschamberpot.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-739 [...] February 17, 2009 — xanthippa Recently, I received this comment on my Aspergers and Reading post which I thought deserved a longer response… one which might be helpful to other parents [...]

]]> http://blog.xanthippas.com/2008/04/14/aspergers-and-reading/#comment-676 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:02:50 +0000 http://xanthippaschamberpot.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-676 My Aspie son is 10 and we have homeschooled since first grade. He was extremely behind in his Reading skills in K and made very little progress. Teaching him has been very trying. He is resistant to reading at all. He is able to read about 200 common sight words on cards, but then can’t seem to read them in text. Generally if he sees a word like “has” he will not recognize it, but will get the word if I spell it. I have no idea why this works for him and I haven’t been able to find more information on how to capitalize on this strength. He has an incredible vocabulary, very good comprehension, and generally is at grade level for other language skills.

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