[senco-forum] Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Stuart, what difficulties with words and sentences?  Could that be supported 
on-screen?  the Inclusive Writer word processor  might help?  Also 
mind-mapping software- Inspiration?  Perhaps word prediction (penfriend) or 
Wordbar?

A scribe, obviously, can only transcribe what is dictated to him-  wouldn't 
that still  be a problem if word-finding is hard?.  Also  it takes time to 
acquire dictation skills- something that can be forgotten.

Independence is such a precious gift, if your lad can maintain it.  Using a 
scribe seems to me to detract from that.

Elizabeth

 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: Stuart Lucas
To: E Olson ; Barbara James ; senco-forum
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:34 AM
Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Going on below -
We have very able pupil with Aspergers/dyslexia -
He is using his laptop all the time but is asking for scribe for exams -
This does look like a good strategy due to all his difficulties with
words/sentences -

Maybe use a scribe?
Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of E Olson
Sent: 09 October 2006 20:38
To: Barbara James; senco-forum
Subject: Re: [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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