OMG - dd1 is reading!

[silverfrog]

I can't believe it.

Not fluently. But have recently put a new app on her ipad (Open University Our Story, if anyone is interested - free, and brilliantly customisable) - changed the storyboard on Wednesday morning.

I know she hasn't had much time at school to go through it (so it isn't a case of ehr memorising the sentence with each photo).

opened it up this evening - first itme this weekend, possibly the first time she has seen it at all, but maybe not, and she read all 15 sentences brilliantly

examples are:

I am drinking juice
I am riding into the water
Here are the swans (she struggled with "swans" - new word - but recognised the initial letter, and asked me what the word said. on second read thorugh she read it (probably memorised the sentence)
Here is X and Y (people)

etc

I am

I knew she was doing ok with some sight reading. and that she oculd do names, and some high frequency words.

Bu I never expecte dher to be this fluent with her sight reading - she pointed ot each word and read it out

still along way to go, but am very proud of my girl

ooh - good luck, Lenin

she is back form school, so i need ot go and see what ehr teachers thought of ehr amazing new skill , and snaffle her ipad and create some new storyboards for her!

Well done DD1!!!!!!

that's brilliant Silver :) :) :)

(ds has been really enjoying the Bob Book app recently - I don't know if your dds would like it)

Terrible news about the school :(

That is fantastic! Well done little frog

well, news just in is that she didn't look at it at all last week at school. so when I sat down with her on Sunday was the first time she had seen it, and she still read ti straight through! what a star!

her teachers are really happy too.

will have a look at the Bob books app, enid - tbh, anything with letters/words/reading and dd1 is in 7th heaven right now...

Terrible news about school SF

it's a nightmare, sphil. just when we were all so settled, and dd1 clearly happy and making progress.

we are awaiting response from the LA... god knows what direction this will take.

Keep me posted x

Reading is amazing!

So sorry about school. Aargh. What sort of terrible timing is that. Are there any other good options locally and if they don't have plans yet maybe you could influence the LA more than usual? Can you spin the reading to 'prove' the one you like best is the most suitable?

Well done dd1.

Silverfrog - so sorry about school but can imagine how happy you must feel about reading, especially after what you were told 18 months ago.

Thank you for that info Silverfrog.
Nearly 7yo!!! WOW, double congrats for DD, what an acheivement.

yes, given the progress dd1 has (finally) made over the last 18 months.

it has reinforced that the only way she learns is via ABA - she has gone from complete and utter (to the point of catatonia) non-engagement, such that her (highly respected) ASD school could not even gauge what she did and didn't know (by way of numbers, letters, etc), and she met not a single target off their shockingly poor IEP (one of the targets was to fill in "go" in "ready, steady, go!" when on a highly reinforcing piece of playground equipment - this was 2 years after the PECS example I gave on your SEN thread, where clearly she had far more language, even if scripted (but then, what else is the phrase they were pushing for?)) - her targets remained for the whole year and she met not a single one.

sorry, postie interupted - she has gone form non-engagement to being a happy and contented member of her school. she is making progress, albeit slower than her NT peers (and she obviously remains behind them). she still cannot cope in classroom situations (she has ms inclusion once a week, and cannot integrate)

Silverfrog, terrible about the school. I thought to close a school the LA has to go through a pretty longwinded process of consultations withparents, local people, school governors and staff, then the semi independent schools organisation committee for the LA makes a decision and if there is disagreement from the school's governors or the SOC, the independent school adjudicator (central government) gets involved. There were lots of special school closures in the early 2000's due to the 'inclusion' policies being used to save money and close all the expensive MLD schools. Is there any campaign going for your DD's school? I was a governor at my DS's school in 2006 when we successfully fought the LA, and the school adjudicator agreed to keep the school open. A long, hard fought battle, but the school itself didn't want to close and has now expanded as an outreach centre of excellence.

I hope some opposition can be organised for your DS's school.

Oh bugger. I didn't know. That's pretty awful.

yeah, thanks ellen - but justa is right, it is was a private SN school.

dd1's last day on Thursday

still no word from LA...

Great news about reading - terrible news about the school. I hope you get some indication of the way forward - to another ABA school ? soon