Joysworld- Maybe they are just not ready yet. Esp -If your child is really a visual learner.[sorry not wishing to de rail this wonderful thread
]Recently N [9 ] begged me to buy him this book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Welcome-Alie...9063495&sr=1-1.
Now I
tried to talk him out of it
.I couldnt see why he wanted it. I bought it - he was really happy,went home and read it to himself -lots. It was many weeks later when I read it to his little brother - that I suddenly saw what he got from the book. Its about a boy who -although human- was the alien at school. The school assumed that he knew exactly what was going on,they asked him spellings for words he couldnt know, asked him math sums in a language he didnt understand..expected him to know how everything worked . It was then I realised how much this was how he felt as a child with ASD in a regular school.It was like he had been dropped on an alien planet. He probably got so much from that book- and at the time I never realised it.
I think the first Chapter book he enjoyed was the Owl and Billy Stories- and that had lots of secret hand signals in.
Stanley liked my naughty little sister,and we started the Enchanted wood by Enid Blyton.