Today I got the news that my son has dyslexia. Although this doesn’t surprise me, it gives me a new challenge, his autism is “on regression”, he is behaving like a normal 6 year-old (he is 8 yo, btw), and he is socializing well, but it answers his problems in reading. Now we have to look for possible new strategies to help him overcome this new obstacle. This summer, his reading is more fluid, even though he is still reading syllable by syllable; his math is almost at grade level and we are doing review in money concepts. So it’s not so bad!

   The therapist tells me that this is a normal situation with children with processing disorders (with he had a while back with language) but she wants to work it with him as she would with a typical child, not as a child with autism. I asked why and she told me that because he is a high functioning autistic child, most therapies for dyslexia/autism are prepared for children with moderate/severe autism and he is not the case.

    I agree with her as I remembered the last time he was considered a moderate autistic child. It was almost 4 years ago. As I said in a earlier post, his pediatrician asked for a re-consideration of his dx because he believes that he has surpassed all prognosis for an independent life. So, after all, maybe it can be the same situation with dyslexia. We will work with it one day at a time and see how to win it.