-The home literacy environment is critical for emerging readers, and even more so with those of the autism spectrum. Due to increased stress that can come with disruptive behaviors associated with ASD, this often means parents find it more difficult to build a quality home literacy environment.

-The need for a quality home literacy environment is highlighted when we consider that students with autism are more likely to engage with novel and potentially challenging literacy activities when they are in a familiar environment.

-Students on the spectrum often experience delays in developing phonological awareness.

-Reading deficits tend to stack, and since students with autism are often delayed in developing fundamental literacy skills, their initial reading deficits can quickly snowball.

-Students with Autism often deal with hyperlexia, causing them to focus too intensely on certain details of individual letters, which can prevent them from reading the larger word.

- Because students with ASD tend to experience language delays in both receptive and expressive skills, this interrupts typical communication development, and subsequently impacts the development of literacy skills.