Promoting Literacy in Students with ASD: The Basics for the SLP

Source:

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, Volume 39, Issue 1, p.33-43 (2008)

Layperson Summary:

Speech therapists should tailor therapy sessions to help students with autism improve their reading skills.

For the most part, classroom teachers teach students to read. This paper describes how speech therapists can also help children with autism learn to read. Research suggests that students with autism may learn to speak better as they learn to read better. Thus, when teaching reading, speech therapists are helping to achieve speech as well as larger classroom goals. Speech therapists can help at all reading levels (emergent, conventional, and skilled).

Scientific Abstract

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