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Students with autism : how to improve language, literacy, and academic success / Katharine Beals, PhD

By: Beals, Katharine
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Melton, Woodbridge (UK) ; Clearwater, FL (US) ; John Catt Educational, 2022Description: 266 pages ; 21cmISBN: 9781915261373Subject(s): Childhood | Resources for educators | School and learning | Literacy | Speech-Language Therapy (SLP) | Disability rights and the neurodiversity movementSummary: "Katharine Beals describes the root causes of the language and learning challenges in autism, their various academic consequences, and a variety of tools and strategies for addressing them. Drawing on what the most current evidence shows about the nature of autism and which therapies are most successful, Beals discusses the implications for autism-friendly instruction in academic subjects." Complete acceptance of individuals on the autism spectrum means rethinking assumptions about autistic students, about how we teach expressive language, about how we teach reading comprehension, and about what and how we teach in the many K-12 classrooms attended by autistic students.
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"Katharine Beals describes the root causes of the language and learning challenges in autism, their various academic consequences, and a variety of tools and strategies for addressing them. Drawing on what the most current evidence shows about the nature of autism and which therapies are most successful, Beals discusses the implications for autism-friendly instruction in academic subjects."

Complete acceptance of individuals on the autism spectrum means rethinking assumptions about autistic students, about how we teach expressive language, about how we teach reading comprehension, and about what and how we teach in the many K-12 classrooms attended by autistic students.