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The 12 Best Picture Books for Teaching Nouns to Children with Autism
Picture books are a widely used resource in classrooms and homes around the world. Picture books support vocabulary development, story analysis skills, and sentence structure skills1. In addition to building language skills, picture books offer opportunities for children to understand what they are reading through illustrations while supporting engagement and encouraging imagination and creativity.
Teaching Language Skills to Children with Autism Using 2-D and 3-D Matching
For children with autism, language skills can be taught using 2-D and 3-D matching skills. Matching is the ability to see two things and recognize that they are the same. Matching skills improve concentration, train visual and short term memory, attention to detail, classification skills, and improve vocabulary.
Teaching Parts of Speech to Children with Autism: Prepositions, Opposites, Pronouns and Verb Tense
Children with autism frequently have delayed language development. For children with autism who have developed language, understanding or using parts of speech correctly may be difficult. While many children develop language skills incidentally, parts of speech such as prepositions, opposites, pronouns or verb tenses may be more difficult and require explicit instruction.
Teacher Tips: Using Receptive Labeling to Teach Children with Autism Language Skills
Beginning at a young age, many children with autism can find it difficult to relate to and communicate with other people, and thus may have significant difficulty in expressive and receptive language (Simpson, Keen, & Lamb, 2015). Difficulties in language development can impact later functional outcomes, such as maintaining successful relationships and communicating wants and needs effectively.
We’ve added a new FORUM to our Autism Learning Line Community! Join the community and use the FORUM to introduce yourself, respond to threads (or create your own) by asking questions, or sharing your expertise on what’s working for you!
For the first time ever, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are estimating the number of American adults who have autism. More than 5.4 million people in the U.S. — or 1 in 45 — over age 18 are on the spectrum, according to findings published online this week in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
World Autism Day was celebrated around the world on April 2nd, albeit in less public spaces. Just as it has for the last few years, the Twitterverse was particularly active, with the hashtag #autismawarenessday tweeted thousands of times in support of those on the spectrum.
