Category: Autism And Learning

This is my ongoing compilation of things that I have tried to help my Autistic son learn. I believe that he has the capability to be as much part of society as any other child and in order for that to happen, he needs extra help to get him there. I try to come up with different ideas that my help him in the process of learning and when we find something that does not work, we look for more ideas. Working with this child has been a long process with excellent results in several areas. Now that we have gotten through many of the Autism Spectrum symptoms which would have caused a roadblock in his life that would have been unbearable to his well-being, we are working on educational roadblocks that are causing him difficulty.

Creative Teaching Update January 29, 2010

Yesterday, my son was so excited about this wordart idea that he took what he did to school and asked his teacher if he could use this idea in school. This is huge progress already. We have not seen him excited about learning to read or work with words in many months. He also is [...]

Creative Teaching

I have a son who is really having a hard time learning to read. We have been trying to teach him for several years but his Autism is preventing typical teaching from working. The school has him read out loud and memorize words which just doesn’t work for him. Memorizing has caused him to relate [...]