Technology and Autism by https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke Technology to Support Reading for Students with Autism en-us 2021-04-18 03:50:43 UTC 2026-03-16 12:07:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1497633762265-9d179a990aa6?ixid=Mnw3ODI2fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8OTF8fHJlYWRpbmd8ZW58MHx8fHwxNjE4NzE4MjQ5&ixlib=rb-1.2.1 What are Alphabetics? dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429130519 The alphabetic principle – the idea that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language.

What is Phonics?
Phonics instruction helps children learn the relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language.

What is Phonemic Awareness?
This is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the sounds that make up spoken words.


]]> 2021-04-18 04:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429130519 What is Reading Fluency? dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429137678 Reading Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. Reading fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension.

When fluent readers read silently, they recognize words automatically. They group words quickly to help them gain meaning from what they read. Fluent readers read aloud effortlessly and with expression. Their reading sounds natural, as if they are speaking.]]> 2021-04-18 04:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429137678 What is Vocabulary? dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429144996 Vocabulary refers to the words we must understand to communicate effectively. Educators often consider four types of vocabulary: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Vocabulary plays a fundamental role in the reading process and is critical to reading comprehension. Children learn the meanings of most words indirectly, through everyday experiences with oral and written language. Other words are learned through carefully designed instruction. Beginning readers must use the words they hear orally to make sense of the words they see in print.

]]> 2021-04-18 04:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429144996 What is Text Comprehension? dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429148209 Reading comprehension is an intentional, active, interactive process that occurs before, during and after a person reads a particular piece of writing.

In addition to being able to understand each distinct word in a text, being able to put them together to develop an overall conception of what it is trying to say is Text Comprehension.

Comprehension depends, firstly, on a large, working vocabulary, substantial background knowledge and well-developed comprehension strategies.

Effective instruction will help the reader actively relate his or her own knowledge or experience to the ideas written in the text, and then remember the ideas that he or she has come to understand.

Comprehension is enhanced when teachers make sure students understand what they are reading by asking questions and encouraging student questions and discussions.

]]> 2021-04-18 04:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429148209 Common characteristics, challenges or barriers dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429170771
  • Children on the Autism Spectrum develops phonemic awareness at a slower rate than children their age.

    • Children on the Spectrum have short attention spans. Therefore, it takes more planning to include activities that interests them, to keep them on-task so they can learn phonics and develop phonemic awareness.

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  • About 65% of children on the Autism Spectrum are know to have hyperlexia, which is an intense preoccupation with numbers and letters. This poses a significant gap between word-level decoding and comprehension.
  • Even though they are fluent readers, they have difficulty with reading comprehension.
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  • Many students with autism spectrum disorder demonstrate difficulties in reading and text comprehension. These difficulties may be attributed to deficits in Theory of Mind, Weak Central Coherence, and Executive Functioning.

    •  Individuals with ASDs tend to focus on single words or details rather than understanding the broader meaning of a story. This style may strengthen their word recognition but interferes with reading comprehension.
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  • Some children with ASD are non-verbal therefore this will a barrier to fluency when reading.

    • Research suggests that fluency is related to comprehension in that if you are spending less effort pronouncing individual words you will be more likely to understand what you are reading. 
    ]]>     2021-04-18 05:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429187971     Starfall dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429225700 Phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity has proven effective in teaching emergent readers, hence its emphasis on the Starfall App. Starfall activities are research-based and align with Individual and Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics.

    It is useful to help students with autism build phonemic awareness, and it being audiovisual and interactive will help with capturing their attention while they learn.]]>     2021-04-18 06:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429225700     Readability APP dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429239708 This app is designed to ask questions about the text being read to check and improve comprehension. Also, it helps children work on decoding and fluency, which are crucial reading skills.]]> 2021-04-18 06:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429239708 Story Builder App dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429285273 Story Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create a narrative. It was designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation; 2) Improve integration of ideas; and 3) Improve higher level abstractions by inference. 

    This is useful because it provides extensive use of audio clips that promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders.


    ]]>     2021-04-18 06:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429285273     Pictello dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429298766 This is a simple way to create talking photo albums and books on an iPad, using pictures from a child's environment, the sound of the parent's voice or even their own.

    This is important to help a child with fluency in reading, because having their personal information included makes the stories more interesting and motivate them to want to read.]]>     2021-04-18 06:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429298766     iSpy Phonics dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429312540 This App matches phonic sounds with letters, through colorful illustrations, pictures and accurate pronunciation, while playing the age old game of I Spy. 

    It provides a fun and highly interactive way to help children learn to recognize letters and their phonic sounds.  


    ]]>     2021-04-18 07:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429312540     Apps in my Pocket dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429323663 This App teaches children letter writing and word games teach children how to blend letter sounds to make words. 

    It is useful because the content is created for the child’s level, and allows them to hear letter sounds in a word.]]>     2021-04-18 07:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1429323663     iStorybooks dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430745518 This App offers free Interactive children's books that includes text and audio, and reads itself to the listener.   Kids can enjoy these books on their own or it can be read to them.

    This will be useful to help children to listen to how a fluent reader should sound, as it is being modelled. Also this helps them to hear and see new words that they can add to their vocabulary, and the more they see this type of activity, the better they will become at being able to read and acquire fluency.


    ]]>     2021-04-18 23:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430745518     Kidspiration dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430877337 Kidspiration is designed to help children to organize their thoughts through the use of visual maps, written outlines, word webs, and various other formats.  These tools are especially helpful for children with Autism for brainstorming and organizing ideas prior to sitting down to write. Kidspiration Connects visual thought with written expression. It uses "Picture View" to visually organize a child's thoughts, then the program immediately transfers the images into an outline format with corresponding text, in "Writing View."]]> 2021-04-19 00:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430877337 Book Creator dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430919651 This App can be used by children with Autism to create their own story book using their images, ideas and creativity. While doing research to create their book, they can learn new vocabulary.]]> 2021-04-19 00:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430919651 Speech kids: Teach with images dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430939922 Speechkids is an educational app with versatile content for improving the vocabulary of kids. 
    Autism affected kids can use Speech kids for developing speech & learning with fun. Other topics like alphabets, animals, fruits, colors, numbers help kids to learn at any time.

    ]]>     2021-04-19 00:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430939922     Speech therapy for kids dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430954756 Speech therapy follows gaming experience based on the natural speech development stages of a child. The app is an expert solution from speech therapists for launching speech pace in autistic kids.

    It includes many activities for phonics, the tempo of speech, repetition tasks & more.

    ]]>     2021-04-19 01:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430954756     Reading Rockets dmurp035 https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430984461 This site provides a lot of resources and books that children with Autism Spectrum Disorder can read to increase their vocabulary. It has books for different reading levels, so the child can work at their present level and move on as they increase their vocabulary.]]> 2021-04-19 01:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dmurp035/hyisqh9cbc6fdzke/wish/1430984461