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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does your child have interests?

For example, are there craft kits or toddler Lego sets that your kid will do?

I know mainstream classrooms try to pacify with iPad and so forth.

My question is whether there are activities you could provide to the teacher that are motivational to your kid.

My experience with NT 3 year olds is that you can find motivational tasks for many of them and it's highly individual.

Thinking back on my boys at around that age, I wonder about Snap Circuits and Rainbow Loom rubber band bracelets and more engaging books on topics they wanted to read about.  Reading skills also suggests memorization is possible.  What about math fact drill games (flash cards, physical puzzles, electronic hand-held, or apps? Maybe if you abandon all pretense of formal curriculum (worksheets, etc.), and just try to match the subject (do an addition app during math time), something might spark.[/quote]

I've tried to get him interested in little math and reading games with zero success.

Up until this point, academics haven't really been the problem. He taught himself to read and spell (through typing) on his own. He can do the basic math problems as long as there isn't problem solving that has to go along with it.

But being unwilling to participate in class, respond to questions, complete tasks, or even stay at/near his seat is a major problem that has not improved over 5 years.

He has functional language, but has no interest in using it. He'll verbally act out scenarios as he's playing by himself, but he's never been capable of short conversation, or even willing to respond to questions with more than 1-2 word utterances.[/quote]

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