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Autism and English as foreign language

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Hi, 

I am a father of a 15 year old boy with autism. My boy is very fond of languages and different accents. His mothertounge is Swedish but he surprises me being very good at English, and has a quite big vocabulary. I have always encouraged his interest and have been having conversations with him in English just for fun. His language skill is kind of funny as he himself has otherwise big communication problems. Sometimes it feels as if it is easier fo him with a second language.

I would like to help him even more learning English and is therefore looking for a company/organisation in the UK that arranges language courses (1-2 weeks) for children with autism. I’ve been Googeling but haven’t found anything. Does anybody know of such a organiser of language courses?

Best regards,

Niclas
Sweden

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  • I find really difficult to teach my autistic child a foreign language. That works perfectly for him is to learn words from dictionaries. I tried different sources, teachers, and ways to make him learn, but nothing worked out. I simply give him a dictionary and daily he learns a few words. Slow progress is still progress.

    Good luck!

  • in reply to NAS78794
    NAS78794 said:
    learn words from dictionaries

    and grammar

    I am doing that since I was 15

    I had only basic english, russian and german for 2 years when I was in secondary

    it's a lot easier when they have similar grammar, like polish, slovak and czech

    most difficult for me is to understand spoken languages since I have somekind of speech recognition problem

    but I have english friend now, and I told him to correct my inproper pronunciations, but he didn't notice many during those years we know each other.

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  • in reply to NAS78794
    NAS78794 said:
    learn words from dictionaries

    and grammar

    I am doing that since I was 15

    I had only basic english, russian and german for 2 years when I was in secondary

    it's a lot easier when they have similar grammar, like polish, slovak and czech

    most difficult for me is to understand spoken languages since I have somekind of speech recognition problem

    but I have english friend now, and I told him to correct my inproper pronunciations, but he didn't notice many during those years we know each other.

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