ERIC Number: EJ1234493
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0040-0599
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Reading Comprehension Strategies for High School Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Brum, Christopher; Hall, Laura J.; Reutebuch, Colleen; Perkins, Yolanda
TEACHING Exceptional Children, v52 n2 p88-97 Nov-Dec 2019
Maintaining a focus on reading comprehension is essential for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as some will still need to develop this skill during their high school years. Two evidence-based approaches for reading comprehension for high school students with ASD are Alternate Achievement Literacy (AAL) and Collaborative Strategic Reading: High School (CSR-HS). AAL provides adaptations and modifications to support access and comprehension of chronologically age-appropriate text for students with ASD (Browder, Thompson, & Fallin, 2014). Targeted for students "learning to read," the focus of AAL is for students to develop an understanding of text, rather than simply decoding functional sight words found in daily life. CSR-HS combines strategies of strategy instruction and corporative learning to improve reading comprehension throughout the reading process for individuals with ASD (Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk [MCPER], 2013). Students "reading to learn" use CSR-HS to work together to use evidence-based strategies to improve their ability to read text for understanding. This intervention is adapted from traditional CSR to be used with high school students with ASD.
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, High School Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Evidence Based Practice, Reading Instruction, Reading Improvement, Reading Processes, Vocabulary Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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