My teen showed me this picture. She looks at a book with her eyes and it doesn't get poured into her brain. As you can see, some dribbles do make it into the cup, which is why she has to read everything numerous times before she understands it.
Speaking of which, she recently finished the very grueling Fast ForWord program. She doesn't feel that she can read better. But it may have been a gradual thing. It may be that when on medication (she did not take medication when she did the exercises) that she will be able to process better.
Her assessment is that this program will work very well for auditory processing issues and for dyslexia. And she doesn't know so much about autism, but from the little she knows, she thinks it could be helpful. It helped her very much with analogies, which she couldn't process before.
The final exercise was reading full paragraphs. She said at the beginning of the game, she made many mistakes and by the end she wasn't making those mistakes. But she is not sure if it is because her neurology grew more connections or if she just learned how to play the game. I guess time will tell. I can tell you that she is not choosing to read books for fun at this time. She reads on Shabbos so likely if reading were coming easier, she would be more inclined.
At the moment, she isn't studying anything that is reading-heavy. We will see if when/if she does, if things are easier.
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