[fiefer87]

remember stories you read to them? Can they read part of them back to you or do they have trouble remebering the stories? Do they make up their own stories, or have trouble with imaginative play?

Alexis has trouble remembering stories we read. Some of them, she now knows, but we had to read them multiple multiple times before she would remember them. She has only done well with one book. It's This is the way we take a bath and if you haven't starting singing the title, its set to the this is the way we . . . (insert activity here) song. Its got 5 pages and I read it (well sang it, because you can't read it without singing) to her 3 times and she has the entire book memorized. She is very musically inclined and musically motivated so, she does better is things are set to music.

She does have trouble with imaginative play. She does not make up her own stories, but I don't know if that is due to her global developmental delays, inaddition to the visual impairment, or if it's related to her autism diagnosis.

[samylaine]

I don't know how to answer this one, lol. Nate has never really let us *read* a book to him. He will point at the pictures asking what's that, and stuff, but he doesn't like the story?

[fiefer87]

Sometimes I wish Alexis would do that. She still has trouble with things like that. If we point them out or ask her to find something, she is more accepting, but she doesn't actively point to things and ask about them on her own. Some of that may be due to her speech delay, but we wonder.