literacy
This free webcast provides information on effective instructional procedures to teach literacy skills to individuals with ASD and limited speech. The webcast includes both detailed instructional procedures, as well as case examples (including videoclips) of reading and writing instruction with children and adolescents with ASD.The webcast provides information on how to teach key literacy skills, including phonological awareness skills, letter-sound correspondences, decoding skills, shared reading skills sight word recognition skills, reading and understanding books, early writing skills The instructional procedures are based on the recommendations of the National Reading Panel (2000), with adaptations to support the participation of individuals with ASD who have limited speech.
Improving literacy outcomes for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and limited speech – Webcast | AAC at Penn State
Magic Spoons
Why hello there my fellow blogger buddies! Were you wondering if I fell off the face of the Earth? If I did not, in fact, survive the madness of the holiday season? If a pack of rabid kindergarteners ate me alive??!!
Reading Journals — Jimmie's Collage
I’ve started using reading journals with Sprite. It’s a way to encourage her independent interactions with the novels she’s reading. Lincoln Novel, Bookmark, and Journal I printed and laminated these bookmarks and made a simple single fold book for her Abraham Lincoln biography ( shape template ).
This past October, I was honored to be chosen as a first round judge for the Cybils Award , a literary award started over five years ago by book bloggers. According to the Cybils website, this award was begun to:
The 2011 CYBILS Literary Awards – Seven iPad Book Apps to Make the Cut
AAC at Penn State | Improving literacy outcomes for individuals with complex communication needs
Challenge Literacy skills are tremendously important in today’s society; they provide a means to enhance education, improve employment opportunities, develop social relationships, access the Internet, foster personal expression, and provide enjoyable leisure activities. Literacy skills are even more important for individuals who have complex communication needs and have limited speech. Literacy skills allow individuals who require AAC a means to communicate anything they want. Unfortunately most of literacy curricula require students to provide oral responses; these programs are not appropriate for individuals with autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and other special needs who have limited speech. There is an urgent need to develop effective, research-based interventions to teach literacy skills to individuals with complex communication needs.