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[quote=Anonymous]I am so sorry you're frustrated, I can totally feel you...not from a mother's perspective (my son is still too young for me to have reading worries, just yet!) but I get you from an educator's perspective...I work with ELL students and students with special needs and my strengths are in reading instruction and intervention.... Are you an educator too? You seem to know a lot about assessments and such...or are you just a heavily involved mommy? :0) I am drawn to your situation and would like to contribute as much as I can, only it is difficult to know what your next steps would be without knowing her full story...Given the wide spectrum of Autism, I would say that it would be very hard to prescribe any one "way" to work with your daughter...I think it would depend more on her general disposition and learning styles as well as her interests/what motivates her, etc...it would also depend on where her gaps are...most-likely starting at the Phonemic Awareness level, judging by her DRA level... I agree with you, that Reading Mastery is kind of a dud...I hated implementing it, myself, when my old school was using it.... I have recently come across a great program from the 95%group (95percentgroup.com)...I am pushing to train teachers on it at my school for next year...I have realized that so many teachers come out of school with no formal phonics training; and for some reason, many schools just want to casually throw it out there and hope that their curriculum will do the job for them...this program might be great for you because it is scripted, affordable and lays out the progression/steps in a way that is easy to understand...you might even be able to find a free training on it through OSSE...I don't know what access is like for non-teachers, but it is worth looking into... perhaps I am saying too much too soon, so i will pause here, for lunch :0) but lemme know your thoughts, so far... Happy Thursday, JenB[/quote]
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