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Recent content by Tatimax

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    ASD child regressed over night

    Hi Everyone! Let me just start with saying how grateful I am for all your input, support and responding. We cancelled all school activities and reduced outdoor activities to 1-2 events per week as he prefers to stay home for now. I am happy to report that while we still have issues my son’s...
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    ASD child regressed over night

    Thanks a lot everyone! We suspected that he is having consequences of burnout. All your suggestions are appreciated and we will follow up on them.
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    ASD child regressed over night

    Hi. I am a mom of 7 years old ASD boy. He has always been a very outgoing, active child with clear ideas about what he wants to do. He is homeschooled so his environment is under his/our control with many choices and opportunities for social communication if he wants. Recent changes include...
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    New Here

    Hello Dyl! I am a mom of autistic boy who was diagnosed at 3 and loves video gaming: mini trains, railroads online, derail valley. All trains for us! His favorite thing is to pretend he has a YouTube channel where he talks about playing these games. He is 7 and awesome! Welcome to you!
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    Mental disengagement

    Thanks to everyone for your support and suggestions! We started going to our community pool (open for the season) and he asked for a .5 mile run in the morning. It helped a lot with lessons. I also switched to a train-based math game-problems using magnet board instead of paper/pencil. He loves...
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    Mental disengagement

    Thanks a lot! I will try to switch my style a bit. Always find great help here.
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    Mental disengagement

    Hi All! I see that my 7 years old autistic boy gets mentally disengaged during homeschooling. He engages into stimming (scripting, laughing, spacing out) way more than usual. He still follows my directions but needs lots of help to stay on a task, doesn’t check for errors, performs automatically...
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    Hi Everyone I’m Dee I have a son with autism

    Yes, things like TV, iPad games, toys are all sources of distraction. In our house we have a rule ‘No screen’ before school or work. It definitely has significant impact on academic process. Also, recommendations from OT are very important.
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    Hi Everyone I’m Dee I have a son with autism

    Hello! I am also a mom of autistic boy and this forum has always been a very helpful resource. My son is 7 and we are homeschooling. I thought I share my journey with my son’s education hoping it might help you with your decision making. At 5 he was just like you described. He could not focus...
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    Learning to read: whole word vs phonics?

    I am wondering what is the most common way autistic kids learn to read. Please reply to the poll and comment if you want. Thanks!
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    Receptive language disorder: how can I help my son with ASD understand speech?

    I pulled him from public school (kindergarten) in March and started homeschooling. Over 3 months at home learned 24 sounds and blending cvc words. He can read sentences like This is a cat. The cat is big. But has problems with th sound. He writes his full name and copies 3-4 words sentences. He...
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    Receptive language disorder: how can I help my son with ASD understand speech?

    Thank you for you reply! We used to visit SLP before COVID. Now it’s hard to find a place and good SLPs at least in our area. We live in Oregon, US. Besides all SLPs we went through put effort on expressive language and not receptive. I teach him myself at home daily using ASD unlocking language...
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    Receptive language disorder: how can I help my son with ASD understand speech?

    We use pecs only to make schedules to indicate for him when events happen in time. He communicates his needs with words (objects, or phi social properties of an object if he doesn’t know it’s name). He can say 2-3 words sentences but when I use 3 words sentences to explain something he gets...
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    Receptive language disorder: how can I help my son with ASD understand speech?

    I tried unsuccessfully. He is 6 and his speech is progressing. He was nonverbal until 4.5 years. Maybe I am too much ahead of the game here and he needs time to figure it all out on his own but what if needs my help and maybe I can help.
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    Receptive language disorder: how can I help my son with ASD understand speech?

    His hearing is fine and he understands routine phrases. But when he scripts a movie, I hear that he doesn’t distinguish between speech and all other sounds. So his script might be a set of phrases, dogs barking, and train whistling. I wonder if when I talk, he hears all other sounds besides my...
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