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Awareness of the sounds that make up spoken words (phonemics) and how those sounds relate to letters (phonics).
Phonemic Awareness: The ability to hear, identify and manipulate sounds that make up spoken words.
Phonics- Decoding systematic relationships between letters and phonemes.

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The ability to know the words needed to communicate effectively, in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Readers must know what the words mean in order to understand what they are reading.

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Strategies for Building Reading Comprehension

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Strategies for Building Reading Comprehension

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Text Comprehension-The ability to think intentionally about what they are reading so that they can construct meaning by relating what they read to what they know.
Readers want to understand what they are reading and put this understanding to use.

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Reading Comprehension and Autism |  Teaching Children with Autism

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Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately and effortlessly. The skill to link words together to create meaningful phrases before they speak to them. Students have good fluency understand each word as it is read. reading aloud is the best way to develop fluency.

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Fluency Training for Students who are Nonverbal

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common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill. Put in bulleted format. 

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common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill. Put in bulleted format. 

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-Children with autism spectrum can be slower to develop phonemic awareness skills as compared to their nondisabled peers.
-Children with autism spectrum tend to overgeneralizing the rules and have difficulty with learning the exceptions to the rules in regards to phonemic awareness. This can lead to words being pronounced oddly by a child with autism.

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill.

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill.

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-Children with autism spectrum that have hyperlexia are fluent And have strong word recognition skills, however their ability to understand what they are reading is quite poor.

-Children with autism have limited oral language exposure due to limited socialization, restricted or repetitive interest they often have a vocabulary that is focused on areas of interest.

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill. 

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill. 

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-Without Theory of Mind, students with ASD struggle with understanding the idea that people have thoughts other than their own, understanding situations from others’ perspective, and predicting behavior based upon context.
- Students with ASD may demonstrate weak cental coherence, or the inability to bring details into a central concept or context.
-Effective functioning deficits in students with ASD might influence their ability to engage in organizing (i.e., sequencing the events of a story), planning (i.e., accessing prior knowledge, making connections), and monitoring their comprehension (i.e., creating mental images, engaging in discussions, summarizing).

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill. 

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Common characteristics, challenges, or barriers of students with autism related to the specific literacy skill. 

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-Readers who have not yet developed fluency read slowly, word by word.

-Struggle to integrate the words into meaningful phrases because they're cognitive resources are used up trying to sound out each word.

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-Bob Books: Introduces new letter sounds, using consistency, repetition, and stories.
*This would be useful in helping sound out the letters as users touch them on screen.
-ABC Pocket Phonics: An app that teaches letter sounds (phonics), how to write letters and how to blend letter sounds together to make words.
*This is a useful app to assist with motor abilities and learning phonics all-in-one.
-Interactive Alphabet: Turns every letter into an interactive toy by use of flashcards.
*This is a useful app to engage children in sound-letter learning.

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Rethink Autism Tip: Expand Your Child's Vocabulary

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-Vizzle
-Learning Ally
-Raz-Kids

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-Pictello
-Stories2Learn
-StoryPatch

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ABC Pocket Phonics: Letter Sounds & Writing

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ABC Pocket Phonics: Letter Sounds & Writing

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ABC Pocket Phonics: Letter Sounds & Writing

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PocketPhonics teaches kids letter sounds, first words and handwriting. It is used in over 300 UK primary schools, and tens of thousands of homes. It follows the national curriculum, and independent research (see appsinmypocket.com/research) found children learnt nine times faster using PocketPhonics compared to a classroom lesson. It works on iPhone as well as iPad.

Letter sounds are taught in small groups and a child is shown how to blend them to sound out words (e.g c-a-t is cat).

PocketPhonics shows children how to write letters using an arrow they can follow with their finger or stylus. PocketPhonics supports two different writing styles, and for each style, kids can write in lowercase, uppercase and cursive.

PocketPhonics teaches the sounds for all the letters in the alphabet plus over 30 letter sounds like 'sh' and 'ch', because they are key to reading so many frequently-used words.

Using a unique, "letter sounds make words" spelling game, children learn how to sound out and spell 160 frequently used words.

To understand the best educational practice underpinning PocketPhonics, order the FREE GUIDE to teaching kids to read from the app.

Parents and teachers can monitor kids' progress online, and receive a weekly email on their child's progress. As the child learns something, the emphasis is switched to what they next need to learn. For instance, when a child learns a word, the app replaces it with a more challenging one.

Teachers don't need to worry about making sure kids have the same iPad each lesson. If a child switches iPads, they automatically continue learning from where they finished previously.

Buying PocketPhonics for school? See appsinmypocket.com/school

Phonics (letter sounds) help children learn to read by understanding the sounds that letters make. Letter sounds (how we say the letters when we use them in words) are not the same as the letter names (what we call the letters). Montessori & other experts recommend not including letter names when teaching letter sounds as it can confuse children by introducing too much at once. PocketPhonics focuses solely on letter sounds so children can learn to read more quickly.

You might also want to take a look at PocketPhonics Stories. It is the new and updated version of PocketPhonics that includes everything in the original plus 42 storybooks suitable for early readers. It is rated A+ by Balefire Labs. They review apps against scientific criteria to see how well they teach kids. Out of the 4,000 education apps they've reviewed, only four other apps have achieved that top rating.

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abc PocketPhonics: letter sounds & writing + first words Review | Educational App Store

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PocketPhonics teaches kids letter sounds, first words and handwriting. It is used in over 300 UK primary schools, and tens of thousands of homes. It follows the national curriculum, and independent research (see appsinmypocket.com/research) found children learnt nine times faster using PocketPhonics compared to a classroom lesson.

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Students touch and drag letters to position after hearing story.

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Bob Books – 40 Years of Best-Selling Learn to Read Books

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Bob Books has Inspired Reading Success for Over 40 Years

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Flashcards engage children in sound-letter learning, encourage fine motor skills and promote thinking and problem-solving skills.

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‎Positively, the BEST Alphabet experience from crib to kindergarten!
Baby - A guided A to Z touchable tour (ages 1+)
Explore - discover hands-on interactive letter toys (ages 2+)
Sing - Sing along with letterbots! (ages ALL)
Type - Match letter keys to type a word (ages 2+)
Trace - Easy letter and…

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An interactive tool. Every word that a student looks up will be added to their learning queue. Users can submit a list of words that they want to learn.

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Using Artificial Intelligence, WordUp analyses millions of movies, TV shows, songs, news stories and famous people's quotes, to engage learners. 

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WordUp: The smartest app to perfect your English vocabulary

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Discover the smartest app for learning English vocabulary, improving pronunciation, and excelling in exams like IELTS and TOEFL. Start exploring WordUp today.

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Vocab1 uses a vast database of more than half a million words to teach you the various contexts within which they might be used.

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You have probably been judged by your vocabulary
many times this year without even knowing it!

Whether you realize it or not, every time you speak, people use your language to instantly "tip them off" about how educated, competent, and successful you are. It's not surprising, therefore, that study after study has shown that a powerful vocabulary is directly linked to success, status, and income. Here are just some of the benefits of a powerful vocabulary:

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Whether you realize it or not, every time you speak, people use your language to instantly "tip them off" about how educated, competent, and successful you are. It's not surprising, therefore, that study after study has shown that a powerful vocabulary is directly linked to success, status, and income.

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Vizzle is an interactive software that educators can use to enhance group lessons, target specific skills or concepts during small group instruction, or individualize lessons for each student that they may use independently.

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Vizzle: Customizable Standards-Aligned Curriculum for Special Education

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Vizzle’s platform makes it simple to create personalized curriculum for special education and track progress so that you can spend your time focusing on what matters most — your students.

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-This app permits students to listen to stories aloud.
-This is useful because it reduces physical effort, increase accessibility and assists with organization so that writers are able to focus more on content.

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There's a reason why we're so passionate about literacy. After all, it is the foundation of learning. But a lot of students never stand a chance. 65% of fourth graders read below proficiency and are 400% more likely to drop-out of high school. And, for "most at risk" students (students of color, low income, English Language Learners and students with learning disabilities) the problem is even more acute.

Learning Ally seeks to break this cycle. With early student assessment, intervention and accommodations, we can identify and can help prevent learning issues and work with schools and educators to support new and struggling readers. Thus, building a strong foundation for independent, engaged learners who are empowered to achieve socially, emotionally and academically, regardless of background or learning difference.

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About Us - Helping BVI Student - Helping Dyslexia

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There's a reason why we're so passionate about literacy. After all, it is the foundation of learning. But a lot of students never stand a chance. 65% of fourth graders read below proficiency and are 400% more likely to drop-out of high school.

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-Raz-Kids delivers hundreds of interactive, leveled eBooks spanning 29 levels. With corresponding eQuizzes test comprehension, providing teachers with skill reports for data-driven instruction.

-This app is useful because the students are able to answer questions to measure their comprehension skills.

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-Pictello: A simple way to create talking photo albums and talking books on an iPad, iPhone, etc.
-This is useful with helping students to make a story including important events.

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This app is great for people who want maximum flexibility. Out of the box, it has everything for communication and language growth. Yet, if you are an AAC expert, you can tailor it to almost any (accessibility) need.

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Create and share visual social stories and schedules with this app for iOS. Adding your own pictures, videos and recordings to stories you create makes it easier to share information while building literacy skills, as well as confidence in storytelling.

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-This app offers the ability to create personalized stories using photos, text, and audio messages.  Preloaded stories can be used to promote literacy, provide leisure activities and foster social skills.
-This useful to teach social skills related to reciprocal play, nonverbal communication, turn-taking, etc.

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Welcome to Stories2Learn (S2L) 3.0, an affordable and powerful way to promote social messages to individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities. Noted on multiple parent blogs as a "top 10 application for autism," S2L provides a new optimized interface for all of Apple's iOS devices (iPod touch, iPhone, and all iPads). Please note that Stories2Learn is not optimized for the iPad Mini at this time. We are in the process into addressing these needs.

S2L offers parents and educators the ability to create personalized stories using photos, text, and audio messages. These stories can be used to promote an individual's literacy, leisure, as well as social skills.

"Stories" comes preloaded with 12 finely crafted social narratives that can be used to teach social skills in the areas of reciprocal play, non-verbal communication, playground and school rules, turn taking, and more (please note that there are six actual stories with two different ways to view the story depending on the individuals' developmental level).

With S2L an educator can quickly create a story that shows various social cues. For example, if an individual is learning a new concept such as turn taking, making improved eye contact, sharing, or other social messages, these concepts can be quickly depicted in a story created by parent or educator within minutes! The creator is able to add their own audio and write dialogue that corresponds to the photos.

While S2L is the perfect app for teaching social messages, it can also be used for a number of additional learning purposes. Featuring an easy to use interface, S2L can also be used for visual schedules and other supports. Teachers or parents can quickly add a photo and add text to help organize the individual throughout the day. This can be effective for individuals who benefit from a high degree of structure such as students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or others with special needs that thrive on these visual supports.

An educational team consisting of a school psychologist, speech therapist, and teachers developed S2L. While the program was created for individuals with ASD or students with other social learning challenges, S2L is also the ideal way to accelerate social learning in typical developing students, as well.

The program works on the iPod touch, iPhone (all versions), and the iPad (iPads 1 and 2).

Don't forget to check out Video Scheduler (iTunes app) which allows you to share video schedules/video modeling and more!

Visit www.look2learn.com for tutorials for both Stories2Learn and Look2Learn.

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Stories2Learn Review | Educational App Store

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Welcome to Stories2Learn (S2L) 3.0, an affordable and powerful way to promote social messages to individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities. Noted on multiple parent blogs as a "top 10 application for autism," S2L provides a new optimized interface for all of Apple's iOS devices (iPod touch, iPhone, and all iPads).

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-StoryPatch is a interactive application for creating digital stories and it even utilizes customizable characters with changeable facial expressions.
-This app is helpful because the story themes help children by asking them a series of questions, then based on their responses it builds a story for the child to illustrate.

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Application: Story Patch
What it is: Story Patch is a digital storytelling tool that kids can use to write stories. Story Patch lets kids create picture books right on the iPad. The application comes with more than 800 beautiful illustrations that will bring stories to life. Kids can customize their own characters, even allowing them to adjust facial expression, body position, skin, hair color, and more. The characters they create fit seamlessly into any story they want to tell. The gestures to create a story are very intuitive, taking advantage of touch and drag, two finger rotate, and pinch to make smaller. Kids can even import pictures from the iPad's photo library to use as a story backdrop. This means that they can create pictures in another iPad app and use them in their Story Patch story. The finished result can be saved as a PDF and emailed in one touch.

How Story Patch can enrich learning: Story Patch brings student writing to life, allowing them to create their very own ebooks. Because Story Patch creations can be saved as a PDF, they can be added to the iBook library. Students can use Story Patch to tell an original story, to retell a story, or to summarize learning. Students will love creating such professional quality digital stories!

Devices: iPad Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later.

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Application: Story Patch What it is: Story Patch is a digital storytelling tool that kids can use to write stories. Story Patch lets kids create picture books right on the iPad. The application comes with more than 800 beautiful illustrations that will bring stories to life.