Students with Autism Padlet by Olive McLaughlin https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0 Technology to Support Specific Reading Skills for Students with Autism en-us 2022-04-15 18:56:28 UTC 2025-06-04 23:31:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://www.icoe.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/inline-images/mT1uu97R241kxXMdnFzj6a5OpmepCucDBG5j2k5EzgeBvbfgOC.png?itok=fU886mY4 Alphabetics is learning to read English, and is the awareness of how the letters of the alphabet relate the sounds of the language. Alphabetics involves being aware of the sounds that make up spoken words as well as how those sounds relate to letters. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145129994 2022-04-15 19:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145129994 Phonics is how you teach a child to read and write the alphabetic language. It is putting together the relationship between sound, letter, groups of letters and or syllables of the written language. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145133061 2022-04-15 19:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145133061 Phonemic awareness is the ability to to focus on sounds to turn into words. Phonemes combines forms of syllables and words. Students with phonological awareness are able to identify and make oral rhymes. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145137674 2022-04-15 19:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145137674 Turing letters and sounds into words olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145139012 2022-04-15 19:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145139012 Barriers of students with autism is that sometimes they have poor motor skills, behavior and learning problems. Many children with ASD struggle with both reading words and understanding what they read. Another challenge is that children with ASD don’t always develop early literacy skills in the same order or along the same timeline as other children. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145143545 2022-04-15 19:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145143545 AAC is a great communication device that helps them with literacy. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145144070 2022-04-15 19:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145144070 Vocabulary means that the child know the words needed to communicate effectively, whether speaking, listening, reading or writing. Whenever a student have a large vocabulary it helps to develop their reading skills and helps them to make sense of the word that they are seeing in print. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145484363 2022-04-16 13:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145484363 Developing a new language can be difficult and challenging for ASD students. This happens sometime because they are not very social and shows no interest communicating with others. This will then slow the development of their vocabulary. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145486710 2022-04-16 13:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145486710 This picture shows how you can use letters to help develop vocabulary. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145488027 2022-04-16 13:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145488027 This video will explain how to help ASD students develop their vocabulary. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145489139 2022-04-16 13:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145489139 Alphabetic is the knowledge of individual letter names, sounds and shape. It is the idea that letters and groups of letters represent the sound of spoken language. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145493962 2022-04-16 13:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145493962 Phoneme farm is an app that helps build awareness in early learners using an engaging farm background. This app makes use of songs, games and characters to make the phonemic learning or word skills learning super fun for kids. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145496003 2022-04-16 13:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145496003 Jolly Phonics Lessons: Jolly Phonics is an awesome teaching support that comes with lots of resources and features to help teachers create phonemic awareness in young children. The app is using synthetic phonics approach to equip children with five basic skills they need to have for reading and writing. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145497652 2022-04-16 13:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145497652 Vocabulary is a set of familiar words within ones language. Vocabulary, usually developed with age, and serves as a useful and fundamental tool for communication to acquire knowledge. The challenge for ASD students is that most times they do not socialize, and caused them to have limited vocabulary. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145503477 2022-04-16 14:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145503477 Proloquo2Go is an easy to use communication app for people who cannot speak or need help being understood. Featuring natural sounding voices, including real children's voices, Proloquo2Go is a simple yet powerful AAC (augmentative and alternative communication)tool. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145508055 2022-04-16 14:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145508055 Endless Alphabet is Set the stage for reading success. It is an interactive educational app for Kids will help them learning their ABC's and building vocabulary with the adorable monsters in Endless Alphabet. Each word features an interactive puzzle with talking letters and a short animation illustrating the definition. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145510985 2022-04-16 14:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145510985 Endless Reader introduces sightwords which is the most commonly used words in school, library, and children's books. Kids need to recognize these words by sight in order to achieve reading fluency. Recognizing sight words is a success for beginning readers because many of these words have unusual spelling, cannot be sounded out using phonics knowledge, and often cannot be represented using pictures. Endless reader will help them to achieve that goal. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145513935 2022-04-16 14:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145513935 Text comprehension is the ability to think intentionally about what you are reading so that you can construct meaning by relating what you read to what you know. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145516014 2022-04-16 14:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145516014 Text comprehension occurs when readers derive meaning as a result of intentionally interacting with the text. This comprehension is enhanced when readers actively relate the ideas represented in print to their own knowledge and experiences. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145518252 2022-04-16 14:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145518252 The challenges for students with ASD and text comprehension is that sometime with their learning disability they will mainly have trouble decoding, or connecting printed text to a spoken word. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145519681 2022-04-16 14:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145519681 This teacher demonstrates how to get students engage, participate and take charge of their learning. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145521429 2022-04-16 14:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145521429 A great way to help students with text comprehension is to have them read aloud, provide books at the right level, reread to build fluency, talk to the teacher, and talk about what they're reading. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145523239 2022-04-16 14:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145523239 Readability Reading Tutor is an app for helping kids to improve their reading comprehension skills. Readability is a smart Reading & Comprehension Learning App your child can use anytime, anywhere. It takes them through their first steps and then strengthens and consolidates their reading ability. I recommend readability because it gives children the tools they need to improve their reading and expand their horizons. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145526367 2022-04-16 14:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145526367 Accomplish Reading is a simple app to help children improve their reading comprehension. After reading a number of sentences, children are asked to agree or disagree as to whether the sentence makes sense. Clicking on the correct answer moves the children onto the next sentence however, if they get it wrong they are prompted to re-read the sentence and try again. I recommend Accomplish Reading because of the process it use on re-reading to teach users the importance of re-reading sentences to gain an understanding and improvement on reading. comprehension. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145528940 2022-04-16 15:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145528940 Reading Eggs lessons and activities provides reading comprehension help. Each lesson ends with the reading of an e-book, and children are required to answer comprehension questions and monitor their own comprehension when they complete activities and revisit texts. Reading Eggs helps children improve their reading fluency with fun instructional online activities and e-books. I recommend reading eggs because it assist young learners build fluency, vocabulary and comprehension skills. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145535225 2022-04-16 15:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145535225 Text Comprehension is the ability to read a text and understand what you read or what was read to you. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145542369 2022-04-16 15:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145542369 Vocabulary is when a child knows the words they need to communicate effectively. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145542664 2022-04-16 15:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145542664 Alphabetics is the awareness of how the letters of the alphabet relate the sounds of the language olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145544716 2022-04-16 15:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145544716 Reading Fluency is the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and with proper expression. Students should be able to understand what they read whether they are reading out loud or in silence. They should be able to read with a conversational tone, reads the text with accuracy and speed, and use expression that invites the listener to the story. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145548681 2022-04-16 15:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145548681 The challenges with ASD student are that they are slow readers, so most times they will not read with speed. They will stop frequently because of unknown words. They also lack expression and accuracy. This happens because of inaccurate decoding of unfamiliar words. They also lack memory of words that have been read and practiced previously. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145552890 2022-04-16 16:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145552890 This video gives information on how to improves reading fluency for a child with ASD. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145554663 2022-04-16 16:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145554663 Reading Raven app takes kids on a fun learning journey in which they develop their phonemic awareness, phonics and practice reading whole sentences. Reading Raven offers access to step by step reading lessons that take kids from pre-reading to reading fluency. I recommend Reading Raven because it is interactive and fun which keeps the children engaged. I also love that it includes clear voice instructions and feedback to guide kids learning. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145557035 2022-04-16 16:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145557035 Spark Reading for kids, is about improving kids reading skills through interactive and immersive stories. The app provides access to a moving digital library that kids can take with them anywhere. Stories in Spark Reading are selected by teachers and educators and cover a wide variety of topics including both fiction and non-fiction titles. I recommend the app because the stories come with comprehension question and activities to test students understanding. It also features recommendations based on kids reading levels and interests and allow them to track their reading progress along the way. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145560974 2022-04-16 16:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145560974 Epic is a digital library full of interactive and age-appropriate reading materials that help kids develop their reading fluency. Materials includes thousands of high-quality kids books, interactive learning videos, audiobooks, read-to-me books, and quizzes. Epic also offers personalized recommendations based on kids reading levels and interests. Incentives provided by Epic include badges and rewards. I recommend Epic because the feature it provides to teachers gives them the ability to create profiles for students and assign them books to read. It provides progress tracking and personalized recommendations based on student reading levels. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145570811 2022-04-16 16:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145570811 Fluency is defined as the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145572823 2022-04-16 16:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2145572823 Baby Joy Joy is an interactive alphabet app for young children encouraging them to learn alphabets. This app can be used by children who are just beginning to understand letters and sounds. I recommend the app because it is a colorful app that helps kids learn English alphabets and build their vocabulary through interactive games. It is also aligned to the Kindergarten Reading Foundational Skills in the Common Core Standards. olivemateen https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2146111520 2022-04-17 17:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/olivemateen/4wjbfxir5tleq4u0/wish/2146111520