Annual Review this week and I need help. DS has made AMAZING strides in his receptive language/social skills and I wanna give the school full credit BUT I can't let his failure to make any progress in reading go unchallenged.
School reading progress has been stuck on stuck since nursery and DS is year 4. His current iep target is to learn graphemes he learnt in nursery ffs! It's death by synthetic phonic flashcards or nothing as far as school are concerned it seems.(On the advice of the dyslexia outreach team, an expensive waste of time imho).
I do have a copy of a book "flat stanley" to take with me that shows the typeface he finds easiest to read and the vocab standard he's reading to me at home. (He's given ORT level 2 by school only after a long fight, so massive gap in standards between school and home materials) . Would it be helpful to take this along?
Issues impacting reading:- audioprocessing (NHS Salt going great guns) , visual tracking (seeing a private BO), ASD
What I want to get agreement on:-
- He needs to generalise the sentence reading fluency he's aquired at home into the school environment and take on reading larger chunks of text.
- I need to suggest a sensible strategy to achieve this and perhaps a sensible measurable target or two.
Can anyone help me write something sensible down to hand out in the meeting?
School are fantastic at picking up and running with sensible ideas - just noone's given them any for this area it seems. DS can't be the ONLY HFA to have this kind of issue so I'm praying you guys can come up with the goods for me.
Sorry this is so long but didn't want to drip feed.