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Books explaining puberty for an 11 year old

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Can anyone suggest any books which are pictorial and easy to understand for an autistic 11 year old girl who has global learning difficulties and whose mental age is well below her actual age.  She also reads at about a year 1 child.  I have one book but wondered if anyone has any experience/suggestions.  One that we can look at together with simple explanations would be good.  Thank you for reading.

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  • HI.

    It sounds like she may be dyslexic. If you haven't, I'd contact someone at a dyslexic organisation to ask for help learning to read. 

    My son was dyslexic and adventure video games were useful as he needed to read in order to to play them. But the nice thing about video games is there are one or two sentences rather than a page of symbols which dyslexic neurology might reinterpret as a monsoon of alphabet soup. If it helps, the majority of humans only started reading 200 years ago. Prior to which it was something for the wealthy, but not demanded of anyone. I read with a bookmark to underline the words so they don't jump around. 

    Does she have an older cousin or perhaps an aunt who can talk her through these things? There's also possibly online videos and games: https://www.gaiaratner.com/puberty-sucks

    I haven't had a good look, but there should be more out there!

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  • HI.

    It sounds like she may be dyslexic. If you haven't, I'd contact someone at a dyslexic organisation to ask for help learning to read. 

    My son was dyslexic and adventure video games were useful as he needed to read in order to to play them. But the nice thing about video games is there are one or two sentences rather than a page of symbols which dyslexic neurology might reinterpret as a monsoon of alphabet soup. If it helps, the majority of humans only started reading 200 years ago. Prior to which it was something for the wealthy, but not demanded of anyone. I read with a bookmark to underline the words so they don't jump around. 

    Does she have an older cousin or perhaps an aunt who can talk her through these things? There's also possibly online videos and games: https://www.gaiaratner.com/puberty-sucks

    I haven't had a good look, but there should be more out there!

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