Spelling suggestions for asperger students?

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I help with reading intervention at a private school.  One student I have, 11 years old, drugs in system as a newborn and recently diagnosed aspergers,  reads quite well given a passage and sight words.  He is a delightful student and very verbal. However, he has great difficulty with word lists of phonetic type words, especially nonsense words.   Decoding a 2 letter blend at the beginning of a word to help with spelling is very difficult, as he has difficulty breaking all the blends  apart (clam, flat...).  This hampers his spelling.   He also does not always recognize vowel combinations (oi, aw...) which could help him decode an unknown word and help with spelling.    I used Barton with him 2 years ago and he was making progress, although slow.  Last year he moved, but this year he is back.  He has not made gains in simple 4 letter short vowel words at all, if not, he is worse.  He has dysgraphia and will be tested for therapy any day now.

Does anyone have any suggestions as far as a spelling program for him?  Although he recognizes sight words almost instantly, he does not have that ability to transfer this in spelling. I am wondering if Barton is the best program to stick with to help him, but perhaps we need to go back to a previous level.  Should we be doing something different to help him learn the other phonograms...oi, aw... types?

[Lecka]

I don’t think there is a different recommendation than what you are doing.  

 

[nothingisworthmore]

We use All About Spelling. We’re only on book 2 but since we also use All About Reading, AAS reinforces what was already taught in AAR.

[Rosie_0801]

Apples and Pears employs a few different techniques. My daughter also has dysgraphia, so I taught her to finger spell the words to reduce the handwriting.

[ktgrok]

Any way to get his hearing tested? Because it sounds like either a hearing issue or dyslexia. If no hearing issue than either Abecedarian starting with Short A (that level has consonant blends if I remember right) and then B1 which has vowel teams, or MAYBE words their way. 

Or can you get the book Equipped for Reading Success and use the 1 minute drills in there, plus word study as they describe it? That would accomplish some similar things to Barton or Abecedarian. I mention Abecedarian because it is much more efficient/condensed than Barton, and he can do some of it independently between sessions if need be.