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[quote=Anonymous]Hi all. My 6 yo DD has anxiety and a level 1 ASD dx. We’ve done parent coaching, therapy, and she takes guanfacine. She did great in the beginning of the year but the wheels fell off the bus in the back half. She refuses to engage in certain things at school (reading and writing) and melts down if we ask her to read at home. We think she might have a learning disorder but it’s also so early. She can decode and has phonemic awareness but has a hard time with sight words that break phonetic rules. She’s reading the Bob Book Kindergarten sight word books now, and after book 6 in that set she is really struggling (“do, it dot” or “she saw a hill.” - do and saw are hard).

We mostly haven’t pushed reading to us because we want reading to be fun/a lifelong skill, and we know that eventually she will learn. We read to her and she listens to audible. What we are noticing now is that she has major anxiety about “being dumb” and “being behind everyone” and “reading the baby books when every one thinks I’m stupid.”  She is crazy observant and notices what everyone is doing and is correct, most are ahead of her. She throws a huge fit at the mention of a tutor, because “all my friends will make fun of me.”

We are revisiting treatment with her psych and starting CBT this summer. We asked her how she’d like to practice reading and she said in the morning, but even that is sometimes a struggle. We are trying to find that gentle balance of “practice and encouragement” + “I’m not worried, people learn when they learn.”

Have any of you been through this with your asd/adhd/anxiety kids? What worked for you? Charts? Bribes? Tutors? School accommodation?

Thank you. [/quote]

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