AUTISM TOYS FOR LEARNING
EDUCATION LEARNING PROGRAM REVIEW
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If you are a follower of this blog post, I am sure by now you know about my autistic son and my many struggles in trying to help him. Most of the struggles were a result of a lack of knowledge of autism and his other two mental disorders: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Today I want to talk about something I just recently discovered, something I wish I had found years earlier. You are probably wondering why I say I wished I had found this a few years earlier, and I’ll tell you why.
Teaching an autistic child anything is hard, twice as hard if you don’t know what you’re doing because you know zilch — I mean nada about autism and can even be a horrific nightmare for a severe, non-verbal autistic child coupled with the above-mentioned disorders — and I am living proof of that.
My son is twelve years old, severely autistic, non-verbal, has zero attention and concentration to save his life, and cannot differentiate at all. To him, everything is either black or white not black and white. All this makes teaching him anything super difficult and other times nearly impossible.
Let me be honest, in my early autism-journey years, I used to complain a lot, scold him, and even shout. I thought he was being difficult simply because he could just to mess with me. But as I dedicated more of my time to his mental disorders, I began to realize that he wasn’t being difficult, that he was actually struggling.
That’s when I rolled up my sleeves and pulled up my socks because I wanted him to be able to learn things; some if not everything. Trying to teach him spoken language was the hardest part of all because it required a lot of time and patience and of course dedication and strategy amongst other things.
As my knowledge about autism grew, so was my desire to improve my son’s learning ability. So, I began to search for constructive toys I could use to assist me. I had no idea exactly what type of toys I was looking for because there are tons of them out there, but as soon as I found this program, I knew it was the one.
Although I knew nothing about the program before, what made me buy it was that it first, provides a video of how the teacher does it. That’s reason number one but not the main reason why I decided to try it out. What made me try it was that it is bright and flashy, and it had different types of phonic sounds.
And my son is a sucker for all these attributes. If you want to have his attention and have him concentrate on something for longer, give him something flashy and bright with a little sound on it. There! You’ve got him, line, hook, and sinker.
He would concentrate, he would be quiet you’d even forget he was in the room. This program is called Children Learning Reading. What this program does is teaches children how to read by first learning the sounds of each word — more like spelling the word first if you want to call it that.
It doesn’t stop there but goes as far as teaching a child to read a whole sentence using the same word-sound method. It makes reading so fun and so stress-free, especially for children with learning difficulties. And if you’re a fan of home-schooling, then Yaba Daba Dooooo……. for you because you can incorporate this program with “your syllabus”.
What I also love about it is that you don’t have to worry about how to do it because it contains a video that you can watch; click here to watch. Okay, so my son is non-verbal, which means he can’t speak, right? So, how does he read out the words? Well, I have remixed the program a little to accommodate that.
This is what I do; I source pictures on the internet of the words I want him to “read” to me. For example, if I want him to spell or read the word ball, I show him a picture of a ball then he will pick the card with the word ball. It’s double the work, no, I take that back. It’s not double the work but triple the work and tiring but worth it in the end. Remember, this remix is for my child because of his severity; it doesn’t have to be the same for you.
All this is made easy thanks to the Children Learning Reading. Now, as a mother first and a mother with a special needs child, I highly recommend this program because it’s designed for all children and not just for those with disabilities or special needs. It’s for all children!
If I were to give it a rating on a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give it a whopping ten out of ten golden stars. It is that great! Try it yourself and prove me right; I promise you; it would be the best thing you can get for your child.
