Tyler Anderson This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. www.autismtoday.com

   www.autismtoday.com/articles/C - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/11/2007   Last Visited: 4/11/2007

   Laura Beth Anderson, whose son, Tyler Anderson, is in sixth grade at East Hills, needed help with reading beginning in third grade after childhood issues left him behind.
   ...
   In fourth grade, Tyler was in a class that had implemented the co-teaching model, and he stayed in his class with his peers and received help at the same time. By the end of fourth grade, he scored proficient on the statewide reading exam.
   
   Now, Tyler is reading at grade level, and he's reading more than he's ever read.
   
   Anderson, who teaches alternative learning in kindergarten through second grade at Westwood Primary School, understands how important reading is for student success.
   
   "It's huge," she said. "It's everything. Reading is so, so important. It just affects everything, and now in math with all the reading word problems. You have to know how to read."
   
   Anderson said that in third and fourth grades when Tyler was struggling as a reader, "you just read what we have to read." She described Tyler as dreading the experience.
   
   That's all changed now, thanks to his teachers, his mom said.
   
   "Tyler reads (while I'm) driving down the road," Anderson said.
   ...
   For Tyler, the co-teaching model can be summed up like this: "I get to stay at my own desk," he told his mom recently.

2. 2. www.autismtoday.com

   www.autismtoday.com/articles/C - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/11/2007   Last Visited: 4/11/2007

   Laura Beth Anderson, whose son, Tyler Anderson, is in sixth grade at East Hills, needed help with reading beginning in third grade after childhood issues left him behind.
   ...
   In fourth grade, Tyler was in a class that had implemented the co-teaching model, and he stayed in his class with his peers and received help at the same time. By the end of fourth grade, he scored proficient on the statewide reading exam.
   
   Now, Tyler is reading at grade level, and he's reading more than he's ever read.
   
   Anderson, who teaches alternative learning in kindergarten through second grade at Westwood Primary School, understands how important reading is for student success.
   
   "It's huge," she said. "It's everything. Reading is so, so important. It just affects everything, and now in math with all the reading word problems. You have to know how to read."
   
   Anderson said that in third and fourth grades when Tyler was struggling as a reader, "you just read what we have to read." She described Tyler as dreading the experience.
   
   That's all changed now, thanks to his teachers, his mom said.
   
   "Tyler reads (while I'm) driving down the road," Anderson said.
   ...
   For Tyler, the co-teaching model can be summed up like this: "I get to stay at my own desk," he told his mom recently.