Think we've cracked it-sooooooo proud!

[RinkyDinkyDoo]

DS asd,delayed speech and language and "complex learning difficulties" will be 6 in March. I started him on sight vocabulary words 4 months ago, didn't get much joy and he struggled with them.
I gave up.
Tried him again 3 weeks ago, oh wow, he could rememeber them, so added a few more, he retained them. Started mixing them up, making short sentences and he understood. He's up to 19 now that he recalls. I had taken them from a reading scheme, so showed him the books with them in, he followed my finger and said them,he then moved his own finger under them and read them. Told school which words I was concentrating on, they started doing sight vocab 1:1 with him with their words and my words, he's less arsey about coming to "reading time" and seems to enjoy.
Tonight I introduced him to the next level book, lots of words he knew and some he didn't- he actually looked at the words and read- so defo no relying on remembering from the last time.
Had a bloody good cry before-tears of joy.

That's wonderful

Well done to him AND to you!

That is wonderful.
Literacy is one of the most helpful things for a child with communication difficulties because words on a page stay while words from a mouth fly away.
It's a civil right.

Are you following a particular scheme. Whilst a sight vocabulary is useful, to really crack reading, you need to be able to decode-that is to understand what sounds a letter or a combination of letters stands for.

This book here is well worth reading. It's old but the advice today is as relevant as ever (probably more so) and it tells you quite easily what letters to work on and in what order.

Reading is within the reach of all but the most severely disabled children.

He knows all his sounds, they're trying at school with blending,but it's not working as yet, with all of them the teacher said-SS with 8 in his class. He's had some Oxford reading Tree, but he wasn't reading, he was memorising after we'd gone through the book a million times with him. So I 'borrowed' the level 1 Ginn 360 from my school. The book I tried him on tonight was level 2, but I've also 'borrowed' some Oxford Reading Tree as well.
I think now he's had some success I'll start trying to blend, but just for the mo it's a huge step forward for him and myself.

great, well done you and little RinkyDinky!

Yes zzzzzzzzzz. It was a moment I worried I might not experience for a long,long time, sitting down with him reading to me.
Ok, we were in the middle of the kitchen floor,laying on a less than clean bathroom mat which he'd dragged down the stairs and said " sitting on the carpet" he then added "flying" So we were reading on a flying carpet

Well done, well done, well done!

So pleased you posted this. My DD, nearly 5 with complex LDs and preverbal, has just shown that she can read 3 words so we have the evidence she can do it, just need to persevere as you have done.

You and your DS are an inspiration

Well done Mini Rinky! Well done to you too :)

Thank you Messmonster .

how lovely! Congratulations, you've just unlocked a big door. That's wonderful xx

[Grin] Aww messmonster ...that is ace!