My Thought Process While Learning...

Hey guys!!!

SO sorry I haven't been on here for a while. Like I said last time, I took a break for the holidays. BUT, I was starting up my next venture.

CATCH UP TIME! Okay, so I have officially decided to start a YouTube channel and post videos on there to help me provide insight and advice, as well as my story and experiences. I posted the first video up last Tuesday if you want to check it out. I'll put a link in here somewhere.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhcrdneDR21

Okay, so I went on my Instagram and asked you what you wanted me to talk about. I was asked about my thought process while learning and reading comprehension. So, I'm here to do just that.

So, growing up, my reading comprehension was HORRIBLE. To this day, I feel like I still struggle with it at times. I did work with a couple of IEP specialists in my youth up until tenth grade, when I went from IEP to Section 504. If I read something, let's say, a passage from a story, I wouldn't be able to recall what exactly happened in the story.

So, what's helped me a lot is breaking up the passages, little by little, until I got to a point where I am able to explain what all happened. So, I broke it up every 2-3 sentences, and that seemed to help. Another thing that helped me was describing through pictures. I'm a visual type of person, and as someone with Autism, I tend to think in pictures and connect them as best as I could. So, if they used a picture book, or if they drew a picture for me, I would remember that way too. Hearing the story on a tape or CD, that helped too because the words would play in my head. That's how I've been able to learn lines for Christmas pageants.

So, that's what's helped me, but every Autistic person is different. Maybe they need more audio than visual. Maybe less visual and more breaking up. Everyone is different.

I wish I had more methods and ways to share, but I honestly don't remember much because it's been a while since I had an IEP specialist working with me. If this is a little confusing, I'm filming and uploading the new YouTube video tomorrow on this very same topic which I hope can clarify this a bit more.

Before I go, I just want to add that I might do just the blog post on a topic, I might do just a video on a topic, or I might do both. This time is one of those times where I'm doing both. Also, I'm doing fun videos too, which I explained in the first video.

So, I hope you guys liked the post and I hope it helps. See you all soon!!