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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 636971" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>You can do it by making him more personally accountable. For us, the correspondence school did a lot of the nagging for us. Also, when work has to be done, it has to be done. it doesn't go away when the rest of the class moves on, it just sits there waiting to be completed. Also, for us, the school made accommodations for learning difficulties. With dyslexia, some of the things that can be done is lessons on DVD or audio. You can load them onto a laptop or iPod. I would strongly urge you to get movies of the classics, Shakespeare plays, for example, on DVD and get him to watch different versions of them. There are some wonderful TV programs coming out of the UK (the Aussie educational TV networks use them) and we had difficult child 3 watching these from very young. Senior high school Chemistry, senior high school literature and poetry - the sort of stuff you think our kids won't handle. But the "Arrows of Desire" 15 minute poetry program, for example, where poets talk about poetry - when difficult child 3 finally got to the lessons for those poems, about six years after he first started watching the program on our TV, he understood the poems thoroughly and totally surprised his teacher. War poetry, for example - Wilfred Owen is an important poet who my older kids hated having to study, but Arrows of Desire explained the poem "Dulci et Decorum Est" so brilliantly in five minutes, that difficult child 3 was able to explain it to his teacher in about the same time. "An Irish Airman Forseeing His Death" by WB Yeats was another war poem that difficult child 3 was able to call on. We had Australian poets (songs, ballads) that were not part of the Arrows of Desire program, but because they were songs we were able to discuss them ourselves, listening to them in the car. The thing is, it's okay to say if you like or don't like a poem, but it's also important to be able to say why. It was really unusual to have someone with autism being able to write poetry and discuss it. It's only because of that TV program, but being able to do it has given difficult child 3 confidence about his writing ability, and creativity in general.</p><p>Taking difficult child 3 shopping really helped with Maths and with social skills. I have to shop sometimes, and we used it to advantage. Driving along, we would use car licence plates to practice the periodic table of the elements (it helps that I know it all). The game is to make elements from the letters we see. Another game you can play with letters, is to go through the alphabet in order, seeing each letter in turn from the signs around you as you drive. Poor readers are allowed to choose from street signs, while good readers are restricted to business signs on shops. The driver is the adjudicator.</p><p>Documentaries - just about anything with David Attenborough for example, is really good for biology. </p><p></p><p>There is so much you can do. What I used to do when we were watching a movie (including a Shakespeare play set by the correspondence teacher) was I'd make popcorn and we'd get comfortable on cushions. maybe even stay in our pyjamas for it all.</p><p></p><p>I really had little choice. difficult child 3 got thrown out of the mainstream system. He was simply unable to cope with it, and they couldn't cope with him. So we found our ways of making it work.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 636971, member: 1991"] You can do it by making him more personally accountable. For us, the correspondence school did a lot of the nagging for us. Also, when work has to be done, it has to be done. it doesn't go away when the rest of the class moves on, it just sits there waiting to be completed. Also, for us, the school made accommodations for learning difficulties. With dyslexia, some of the things that can be done is lessons on DVD or audio. You can load them onto a laptop or iPod. I would strongly urge you to get movies of the classics, Shakespeare plays, for example, on DVD and get him to watch different versions of them. There are some wonderful TV programs coming out of the UK (the Aussie educational TV networks use them) and we had difficult child 3 watching these from very young. Senior high school Chemistry, senior high school literature and poetry - the sort of stuff you think our kids won't handle. But the "Arrows of Desire" 15 minute poetry program, for example, where poets talk about poetry - when difficult child 3 finally got to the lessons for those poems, about six years after he first started watching the program on our TV, he understood the poems thoroughly and totally surprised his teacher. War poetry, for example - Wilfred Owen is an important poet who my older kids hated having to study, but Arrows of Desire explained the poem "Dulci et Decorum Est" so brilliantly in five minutes, that difficult child 3 was able to explain it to his teacher in about the same time. "An Irish Airman Forseeing His Death" by WB Yeats was another war poem that difficult child 3 was able to call on. We had Australian poets (songs, ballads) that were not part of the Arrows of Desire program, but because they were songs we were able to discuss them ourselves, listening to them in the car. The thing is, it's okay to say if you like or don't like a poem, but it's also important to be able to say why. It was really unusual to have someone with autism being able to write poetry and discuss it. It's only because of that TV program, but being able to do it has given difficult child 3 confidence about his writing ability, and creativity in general. Taking difficult child 3 shopping really helped with Maths and with social skills. I have to shop sometimes, and we used it to advantage. Driving along, we would use car licence plates to practice the periodic table of the elements (it helps that I know it all). The game is to make elements from the letters we see. Another game you can play with letters, is to go through the alphabet in order, seeing each letter in turn from the signs around you as you drive. Poor readers are allowed to choose from street signs, while good readers are restricted to business signs on shops. The driver is the adjudicator. Documentaries - just about anything with David Attenborough for example, is really good for biology. There is so much you can do. What I used to do when we were watching a movie (including a Shakespeare play set by the correspondence teacher) was I'd make popcorn and we'd get comfortable on cushions. maybe even stay in our pyjamas for it all. I really had little choice. difficult child 3 got thrown out of the mainstream system. He was simply unable to cope with it, and they couldn't cope with him. So we found our ways of making it work. Marg [/QUOTE]
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