What type of tutor am I looking for?

[Anonymous]

This is a class that I would love for my son to take. It’s offered by the Forman Summer program. But they do not take kids on the spectrum. My kid is on the spectrum which I’m sure contributes to his lack of understanding of text. This is the course description. What type of tutor am I looking to hire that can teach him these skills?

Students learn reading comprehension strategies like identifying the author’s viewpoint, understanding concepts, making inferences, and analyzing a text. Throughout the course, students are challenged to apply these skills to examine scholarly articles, short stories, novels, and periodicals. The goal is to have students evaluate text for more than simply what it says, but rather how and why it says it. This course requires students to apply reading comprehension strategies to examine text more critically.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

That sounds particularly important for children on the spectrum, who have difficulty understanding unsaid things.

I didn't know of this course when my kid was in elementary, but we worked through two excellent workbooks on this subject called Inference Jones. You can find them on Amazon and the Critical Thinking Company website. I highly recommend them!

If you want that course, and you think your kid isn't too obviously autistic, then sign him up anyway Or maybe wait a year, and this year do the Inference Jones first, to limber him up.

[Anonymous]

15:56 again. Wanted to add, in the tutor realm -
I worked with my kid myself when he was in elementary school, for basic reading comprehension, and I used the aforementioned workbooks plus other reading comprehension books from the same company.

Then in middle school, I hired the English teacher responsible for training the other teachers at his area high school. She was EXCELLENT. She came for 2 years to our house, once a week, and I noticed that what she mostly worked on was inferencing (identifying implicit information from a text), and structuring his writing, which he was initially very bad at. He didn't know where to start when formulating a multi-paragraph response. She taught him to write a good analysis with evidence from the text, which proved very useful when he did a ton of APs in the Humanities in high school.

He still has difficulties with creative writing, as well as writing about himself (he never quite strikes the right tone), which made it difficult for him to write his college essays, and now his cover letters for internships... but I guess we can't have everything!

[Anonymous]

We've worked on reading comprehension with speech therapists who have experience with reading.

[Anonymous]

A reading tutor with experience teaching older students and children with learning differences

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:56 again. Wanted to add, in the tutor realm -
I worked with my kid myself when he was in elementary school, for basic reading comprehension, and I used the aforementioned workbooks plus other reading comprehension books from the same company.

Then in middle school, I hired the English teacher responsible for training the other teachers at his area high school. She was EXCELLENT. She came for 2 years to our house, once a week, and I noticed that what she mostly worked on was inferencing (identifying implicit information from a text), and structuring his writing, which he was initially very bad at. He didn't know where to start when formulating a multi-paragraph response. She taught him to write a good analysis with evidence from the text, which proved very useful when he did a ton of APs in the Humanities in high school.

He still has difficulties with creative writing, as well as writing about himself (he never quite strikes the right tone), which made it difficult for him to write his college essays, and now his cover letters for internships... but I guess we can't have everything!

How did you find this person? Could you share their name?

[Anonymous]

Does your kid have any of these skills yet? Age?