having your childs listening skills go farther???????????

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My son has some reading comprehension, social skills and conversational

skills. He reads phonetically at a normal level and does chores around the

house normally. His problem is listening to conversations and comprehension

skills of long wh questions and common sense when it comes to some complex

social stories. I am working with him on these social stories by Patti Mayo

and the wh questions are also by Patti Mayo. Should I keep working with him

or stop. He is fifteen and can memorize easily, but it seems like the work

for both of us never stops. I don't mind working with him if I know for sure

he is learning what I am teaching him in the right way. He memeorizes canned

answers to the social situations in communication junior. When we go over

the cards a lot of the times he'll come up with a right answer (one that he

hasn't memorized). I let him get by with this because I feel like he is

thinking and focusing on the answer. He is beginning to bring out some of

these social stories into real life. Example: When we played checkers and I

won he congratulated me. He has never done this before.