Surviving Autism

My daughter never liked me reading to her, she takes the book away, throws it away and leave.   Or she gets the book go somewhere nobody sees her and read the book for herself.  I didn’t force reading to her because I don’t want her to think negatively about reading and hate it forever.  I do things according to her phase.

And this past few weeks is the phase she now likes reading.  I started reading to her “Where Did My Rain Puddle Go” a story book that teaches about evaporation.  The characters in the book were characters from Walk Disney’s Winnie the Pooh.  She was listening intently while I read to her while we are lay in bed.

I also point the words as I say it so she will recognize them as not just a bunch of stuff or wiggly lines and all but are actually words that mean something.  I show her the photos in the book and tell them who they are, what they are doing and I describe everything in the picture.

This is a habit for the past weeks now.  And I believe she can understand whatever I say because after reading and she is not ready to sleep I leave her alone and she enjoys her book on her own and will come to me when she wants me to tell her what is the thing in the book she is pointing.

She can’t talk yet but she makes the sounds , I say rain puddle, she says “pudzpudz”.

I’m so proud of her many accomplishments and improvements for the past two years she is undergoing  non-stop therapy and special tutorial schooling.  I’m praying for that one day we will talk like the ordinary people do.