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stellamaris
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Posted: Dec 03 2011 at 7:54am \| IP Logged

I'm not sure whether to put this under special blessings or here! It is both, really.

The neuropsychologist who evaluated my ds said he wasn't autistic because he is so friendly, but several other autism experts I have consulted say he definitely has all the classical signs of Aspsberger's. My eldest ds, who is in Afghanistan right now, sent me this article on the hidden potential of autistic children and it is challenging me to think of different ways to work with my ASD son. I can't figure out whether to plod along having him work on the basics, or if he already knows them and doesn't want to say so, or if I should just chuck it and go with his interests, or if I should combine plodding (like using flash cards every day) with interest-driven studies. If we just followed his interests, he'd only do whales, big cats, and pokemon, lol!

However, I told my three younger boys they could each pick a topic and make a research book on that topic. My one ds picked electronics (gameboy!), another picked snakes (which he has already studied, so we're working on a new topic for him), and after I told my special ds that he couldn't study big cats or whales, since he already knew about them, he chose Russia. Russia! Where do you suppose that came from? Anyway, we are going to try this and see how it works. I ordered a couple of picture books with adult-level stories in them to read that are Christmas oriented as well as a book about Peter the Great, so we'll read those and do some reading work on them.

Uncle Vova's Tree
The Miracle of St. Nicholas
The Miraculous Child
Peter the Great

Also, I figured a map, a flag, maybe coloring a climate map or topographical map. He is very dysgraphic so any written work has to be limited to coloring and very small amounts of copywork. Trying to come up with more ideas. We'll bake Russian tea cakes and make Russian tea; study Tschkowsky (sp???). Just trying to enrich his learning. Wish I could figure out some way to include math--maybe some kind of graphing?

Any great ideas?

ETA: or maybe this belongs in the geography section? Moderators feel free to put this where it goes...clearly, I'm organizationally challenged! No wonder my closet is messy

(Or it could be all the hidden boxes for Christmas stuffed in there...

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Posted: Dec 03 2011 at 11:10am \| IP Logged

Another idea for number work could be further map work looking at scales and distances. Most country profiles lend themselves to a discussion of percentages as well.

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Posted: Dec 03 2011 at 9:32pm \| IP Logged

Hmmm- try to find a balanced narrative of Peter the Great. He was actually atrocious to the Church (Orthodox) and the Clergy. Diane Stanley's, while interesting, is quite biased in this respect. Just a little note!! Books on St. Sergius and St. Seraphim of Sarov are availble in children's formats if you poke around on Paedia Classics or any Eastern Orthodox storefront (but I do understand these books are Orthodox so I know they will not be for everyone- but the Orthodox Church has played an enormous role in shaping Russia and its peoples. Just my 2cents!

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