[senco-forum] Autistic Spectrum Disorder

I have known bright autistic spectrum (Aspergers) boys who have been set 
free to write by letting them use  Alphasmarts,  progressing onto laptops as 
they got further up school.  These boys hated seeing errors on a page and 
would spend ages rubbing out- and being further frustrated at the subsequent 
mess.  Word-processing, with its painless editing and neat printouts, was 
liberating for them.

Your boy seems younger than the ones i dealt with- I would try him on a 
talking word-processor like Clicker -its grids might also encourage 
productivity!

Best wishes

Elizabeth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Barbara James
To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 6:39 PM
Subject: [senco-forum] Autistic Spectrum Disorder

  Dear Colleagues,

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions. We have a pupil in Year 3
who is on the Autistic Spectrum and he has some support from an assistant.
The problem is that sine he came into Year 3 he is not completing very much
work set by the teachers. He has to go to a different teacher for Numeracy
and he is reluctant to go into the room when he idoes not have his assistant
with him. He completes very little work and staff are quite concerned about
this as he is quuite capable.
He does not complete work set by his own class teacher and everyone is
beginning to feel quite concerned. Does anyone have any ideas or strategies
which they have used.

He has a time table and he has an iEP which has targets on, but none of them
seem to be very successful at present.
                                           Thanks,

                                              Catherine
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