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narrating with an Asperger's child
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My 11 yo has Asperger’s Syndrome (High Functioning Autism). He is constantly talking and repeating the same thing over and over.
His current “obsession” is cars. He reads nonfiction about cars constantly (I’ve come to realize that many of these nonfiction books are truly “living books” as the authors are passionate about their subjects).
He will not read fiction, but he will listen to books I read aloud or books on tape that we do together. I have just come to the place of saying “it’s okay” that he’s not a fiction reader (my husband isn’t either).
In a sense, he is constantly narrating (orally) because he gets so excited about what he’s reading that he wants to tell me or someone else. But he often repeats himself to the point where we get tired of hearing the same thing 100 times.
I sometimes have him do PowerPoint presentations about the cars, which I see as a form of written narration. His mechanical writing skills are weak, so he would rather type, which is fine with me.
Just wondering what others do with Special Needs children and other ideas to harness this “gift of gab”.
Nanci
We do pretty much the same things with my 8 year old HFA son. PowerPoint presentations are a great idea! We’ll have to try that with him.
I try to have him tell me his main points and I type them up like a check off list to keep him from repeating so much. It doesn’t always work, but it is what we are currently trying.
No advice just wanted to reply:-)
That is actually great advice…to type up main points like a checklist (he’s big into “lists”) so he doesn’t repeat so much!
Nanci
I have an 8yo with Autism and he reads tons of non-fiction books as well. Right now he is sitting on the couch going page by page through WWI and WWII books. He also loves to tell people about what he has learned/read. I do have him read aloud fiction books on his level, though. He does struggle with narrating those back to me. Using a narration jar has helped
. It mixes things up for him and allows for some hands-on/interactive narrating. Here’s what I use: “Narrating FUN”We also use visual organizers once in a while like those found in the workbook of Drawn Into the Heart of Reading….and some I’ve just made up and printed myself….Character Webs and Story Ladder type stuff.
Melissa
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Melissa- Great blog post. I think if I try something like this, it will seem like a game to him and I might get him to read some fiction!
Can you give me an idea of what you put on the cards?
I’m not familiar with Character Webs or Story Ladders. Can you tell me more?
Nanci
On that blog post, I have links (in green) to the list of narration ideas that I used. If you click on them it will take you to the documents you can print, the cube, etc…
As far as Graphic Organizers go, I don’t use ones that ask questions bc I want him to tell/write/draw it back in his own words.
Here is a link to some of the graphic organizers for stories we use:
. It mixes things up for him and allows for some hands-on/interactive narrating. Here’s what I use: Viewing 6 posts - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)
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