Its not an IEP, but . . . Conferences | Autism PDD

Good point! Im feeling an IEP update coming on LOL I think I should prob do another IEP soon to go over stuff - they HATE that, though. But legally I can update it whenever I want.
Feeling sorry for myself again.
Gage is no longer considered advanced in reading, he is actually barely at first grade level. I showed him the books he can read at home but they said they are working on word families & such. I dont know - I feel so drained & emotional right now.

Hope2... so, in other words they told you that because he's not reading the way (or using the method) they want him to - word families - he's not reading on a 1st grade reading level?  Yet the books you've got him reading are above and beyond that and he's reading those fine?

Given your experience with phonics, then you know that word families are nothing more than "chunks" of words that have similar sounds in order to help decode words...so that the average child can more quickly learn words that have similar sounds in them. 

From what you've said, it sounds like Gage is past that stage.  I'd continue to keep him involved in the reading program at home, and fight to have them provide him the challenge he needs, not just to do it "their way."

Tonight. Wish me luck.
Parent teacher conferences. Ugh. Not an IEP but just as stressful!

On a positive note, my son brought home some reading he is working on and I was shocked to see that they have him reading books WAY under his reading level! Just because he has a hard time talking does not mean he needs to read books with three letters in them! So i have three sample books that he reads at home to show them (he stutters a LOT while reading, but at least he can read them! I worked SO hard teaching him to read, and now they are not challenging him!)I think they are assuming that his stuttering is that he is having a hard time reading the words - he KNOWS the words.
I spent about 10 hours a week in the evenings teaching him how to read last year, and all through the summer too. I religiously do Hooked On Phonics, and my 4 year old has also started reading with HOP. It is a program I really beleive in, but it takes a lot of one-on-one work. A lot. It SUCKS for moms as it really cuts into the evening.
My point being, I want him to be challenged at school even if he has stutter his way through, you know? So i am curious to see what they say about that & i will let you guys know in case anyone has a severe stutterer with pronunciation problems. Well I guess technically he has fluency, articulation (I think thats what this is called), pronunciation, just all kinds of speech problems except for lack of!

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