My son who is on the spectrum and has really struggled to read at all, skips over most Maori words, unfamiliar names or Maori place names.

He also has a problem differentiating between other words that can also be a name or a place name, eg "Mrs Green said X" or "James walked down Brown street".

He interprets them literally and ends up wondering why the street was brown or why was the lady green.

The specific book that they referenced on the news last night "At the Marae" was an absolute nightmare for us to work through every time it was in his book bag.