Reply to Rigidity preventing learning

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Rigidity preventing learning "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Here’s a question for other parents with autistic children:

DC is autistic and in third grade. He can usually add four digit numbers in his head, but he works left to right. He occasionally makes a mistake with complicated regrouping, which he perceives as fine.

I’m working with him on adding two-digit numbers, working from right to left, and it’s pure h*ll. DC will not write the small numbers on top to show regrouping. If he’s asking 95+ 8, he’ll write 1 0 3, in that order, rather than writing the ones first. I can see this coming back to haunt him in future grades, as well as on standardized tests.

We are working with this child on a million behavior goals and social skills. This behavior does not even break his top 5 problems. I would rather reason with him, and save the big guns for more pressing issues.

[b]If you have an autistic child with rigidity, how have you handled it? What worked or didn’t?[/b]

If you have typically-developing children, please understand that just having high expectations isn’t enough. My typically developing dc is a completely different ball game.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics