Thankyou everyone for your imput, Alex enjoyed the starfall websitejava script:emoticon('')
smilie I had trouble getting him to exit the site and he's been asking to use it today. I've also labelled many items in our home, some at Alex's request. Alex has had an assessment through the school with a speech therapist to see if he qualified for an aid. She said he was just in the low normal range. Recently l took Alex to see a speech therapist at the hospital as part of his overall assessment for aspergers. As part of the assessment he's also seen a psychologist and he still needs to see an occupational therapist. We will get his diagnosis in February. The speech therapist was great! I was able to show her that Alex could read some words as a whole and he could read sounds individually. But he could not apply the sounds he knew to sound out phonetic words. She said she would request further testing and more speech therapy in her report. She was also able to see that although Alex's language on the surface seemed fine, that when she tried to talk to him in greater depth he was further behind than thought. She said the assessments the school therapists use only show surface, not underlying language. This surprised me. Most importantly she feels that Alex does has aspergers!! I will be talking to the school this year. Alex does enjoy educational games. Thankyou for your imput, it's been very helpful. Marie
