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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 387367" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>difficult child 3's splinter skills do change. Plus in some subject areas, within these, he has flashes of brilliance. But only flashes. For example, he has been watching the educational programs on TV for years, he's seen them all in repeat so many times. We especially watch the Science stuff, and another favourite (to watch at least) has been a unit of poetry. It's made in the UK, absolutely brilliant for out senior high school students. And he's been watching it since he was 10 years old. So now he's 16, he has a good grasp of how to read and understand poetry. Often we'll be watching it and he will say, "Can you find me a copy of that poem?"</p><p></p><p>So I go look it up online, print out a copy and he sticks it on his door or similar. </p><p></p><p>At a school English study day a couple of months ago, they began with a visiting poet who asked the class, "Who here likes poetry?"</p><p>difficult child 3 was the first to put up his hand.</p><p>When his teacher had to work with him in poetry, she was not expecting much from him. But he aced it, he really understood the poems and discussed them with her freely. Compared to the teeth-pulling it is for him to talk about Shakespeare...</p><p></p><p>Poetry as a splinter skill in autism... bizarre.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 387367, member: 1991"] difficult child 3's splinter skills do change. Plus in some subject areas, within these, he has flashes of brilliance. But only flashes. For example, he has been watching the educational programs on TV for years, he's seen them all in repeat so many times. We especially watch the Science stuff, and another favourite (to watch at least) has been a unit of poetry. It's made in the UK, absolutely brilliant for out senior high school students. And he's been watching it since he was 10 years old. So now he's 16, he has a good grasp of how to read and understand poetry. Often we'll be watching it and he will say, "Can you find me a copy of that poem?" So I go look it up online, print out a copy and he sticks it on his door or similar. At a school English study day a couple of months ago, they began with a visiting poet who asked the class, "Who here likes poetry?" difficult child 3 was the first to put up his hand. When his teacher had to work with him in poetry, she was not expecting much from him. But he aced it, he really understood the poems and discussed them with her freely. Compared to the teeth-pulling it is for him to talk about Shakespeare... Poetry as a splinter skill in autism... bizarre. Marg [/QUOTE]
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