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Thu, 03-27-2008 - 7:30pm
Talk about frustrating!


Mollie Photobucket

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In reply to: mommycoffey
Fri, 03-28-2008 - 7:53pm
Sorry I didn't catch your post yesterday. My Aspie wouldn't be able to answer those questions either. Sometimes the schools just don't get it. While preparing my son for the State mastery test a few weeks ago, his teacher pleaded with him not to answer a prompt about what you would do if you were swimming in an ocean with killer sharks, by saying "How would I know? I've never swam with killer sharks!" To this he thoughtfully replied "Well? Do you want me to lie?" You might want to chat up the teacher about this kind of stuff. Inferring or placing themselves in someone else's shoes can be very difficult for Aspies.
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In reply to: mommycoffey
Fri, 03-28-2008 - 10:43pm

Victor had a lot of trouble with these when he was younger. This year, his resource teacher has reworded these things instead of asking "What is the author trying to say?" to "The author is trying to say something simple with a lot of words. What is that?" The fact that she rewrites the infering sentences like that helps him. 8/10 times he's still confused on how to word his answer but it does help. I'd bring it up to his teacher just so they are aware that these questions are difficult and they need help to think about the answer. Instead of How did this poem make you feel? maybe the question could be "What feeling should this poem give?" Victor's a very sensitive kid so he understands others feeling but he gets confused on his own feelings. He just can't see that when he's crying he's sad or when he punches a wall he's mad or frustrated. ( believe me, we're working on stopping the punching walls.)


Good luck.


Alexis