dyslexia/asd and reading

[katcatkat]

My dd who is 9 has diagnosed dyslexia and asd (probably aspergers) is still reading at a very low level not knowing how to read many words that have more than 3 letters.
She can sound out words but gets stuck on words like "first " and "about".
I need a plan to get her reading and wondered if anyone had any suggestions.

My guess is that she needs specialist teaching. If she is in mainstream school you may have a struggle to get this.

Go and speak to the SENCO at school.

Good luck

hmm they have already said they are doing all they can (ta 1:2 for 2 hours a week group plus social and fine motor skills group) its so frustrating. She is now saying that she will never be able to read and having screaming fits at the thought of reading at home.

the mimio headsprout package seems to be filling in the teaching gaps that DS's ASD meant he missed earlier down the school

www.headsprout.com/

However we are also working with a behavioral optometrist to help his visual tracking and convergence issues that contribute towards his dyslexic symptoms. Expensive though this two-pronged approach is, I don't see anything else working

I started with lesson 1 of the early reader scheme to ensure we got the full benefit and have been suprised that DS is gradually picking up fluency speed as time has gone on. I've also been suprised that the programme has retained his interest as frankly by now he's endured so many school based "interventions" (always based around flash cards for some reason lol!) that had totally convinced him he was too stupid to ever learn to read properly.

Try headsprout at home, lots of people on this forum seem to have had good results with it. Do it at home so that it retains it's "freshness" and novelty from school interventions. It is expensive but I think it's worth the cost if only to boost confidence in a child that's lost hope iyswim.

ok will look at that thanks