DS coding is out?

[yawningmonster]

If you found work of your ds with the comment that it shows obvious signs that coding is out, what would this mean?

(We have finished for the year and ds came home with all his books and bits and bobs, in the folder was also a paper that I think was some sort of test where he had written loads of words on a piece of paper with this comment from the teacher, I think it accidentally got mixed up with the stuff he bought home.

DS is 7, he has aspergers and is struggling in all areas of academics. He is about 6mths behind on his reading but is actually not able to read independently. He is just over a year behind in his writing, again in reality he can form all of his letters (though does so very oddly at times and often flips them particularly s) and knows how to write a couple of words by himself but that is about it and is in lowest set for maths but I am not sure how behind he is. We are due for more assessments in the New Year including Behavioral Optometry appointment.

What could this comment mean and what would be ways that we could help him with this?

Ask the teacher in the new year.

I think coding (or decoding) is a term used in phonics and reading programs to mean understanding the rules of words, what the units of the words mean and sound like.

It sounds like they are working out what areas he needs most support in so do talk to them, I am sure they will be happy to talk to you.

I will definately be talking with them in the new year but was hopeful that we might be able to do stuff over the holidays that might help him. Oddbaubles I wondered if it was phonics based, interestingly enough I raised concerns about his phonetic awareness about half way through the year and they said on the school tests he had good phonetic awareness??? which is why I am getting confused. I think he is able to look at individual letters and tell you their sounds but blending and seeing the letters in a word or saying the word in his head and then trying to transcribe it seems beyond him.

Depending on what kind of learner your ds is (my 12yo son with aspergers would rather learn from a machine than from me!) maybe a game like this might be a way of supporting him at home until you can chat to his teacher.

thanks for that, ds is the same and although he loves school he hates school work especially if I am the one asking him to do it. He gets on well with computers and has been doing some free trial time on readingeggs which have to bribe him with some "real game" time to get him on it but once on it he likes it. I have tried several games (is not pc, things like snap, bingo, jump to the word, word fishing, scrapbooks, wipe clean books, magic writing.... as ways of approaching homework over the last couple of years and to be honest if it involves reading/ writing or maths he is absolutely anti no matter how much fun I try to make it)