https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r Information and technologies to support students with ASD in alphabetics, vocabulary, text comprehension, and reading fluency. en-us 2021-04-18 19:25:27 UTC 2025-10-25 23:03:32 UTC hello@padlet.com rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430504762 Alphabetic skills refer to the awareness of the sounds that make spoken words, as well as the letters that correspond to those sounds. This includes phonics and phonemic awareness instruction. Phonemic awareness refers to the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the sounds that make up spoken words. Phonics refers to the relationship between written letters and sounds. Alphabetics encompasses key skills required to become a proficient reader.]]> 2021-04-18 19:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430504762 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430546398

Children with autism can be slower to develop alphabetic skills than other children due to the nature of the disability.

They also tend to overgeneralize the rules or are slower to learn the exceptions, resulting in odd pronunciation.

]]> 2021-04-18 20:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430546398 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430592258 HearBuilder is an online literacy program that helps students with following directions, phonological awareness, sequencing, and auditory memory skills. It also improves literacy skills in the areas of listening, memory, and comprehension. Through the use of highly-engaging, multi-level activities designed to support Common Core Standards, HearBuilder would be a great tool to help students with ASD build on foundational literacy skills of listening and memory. ]]> 2021-04-18 20:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430592258 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430605180 Explode the Code is an online phonics instruction program that provides highly-engaging, data-driven phonics curriculum to grades K-4. This program would be beneficial to students with ASD in learning alphabetic skills as it offers research-based instruction that is reinforcement based and data-driven. Ongoing progress monitoring occurs throughout the program.]]> 2021-04-18 20:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430605180 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430611075 iSpy Phonics App allows users to match sounds with the letters of the alphabet, including four additional consonant sounds, through a game of "I Spy". Each sound is illustrated individually with a picture paired for further understanding and visualization. This app would be beneficial for students with ASD to promote alphabetic skills as it has the option for users to add pictures that are relevant to the individual making learning letters and sounds more meaningful.]]> 2021-04-18 21:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430611075 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430650851 Vocabulary skills refer to the understanding of what words mean and how to use them appropriately in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Vocabulary skills are required for children to understand what they read and also to decode unknown words seen in text.]]> 2021-04-18 21:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430650851 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430655251

Many children with autism have hyperlexia, which is an “intense focus or preoccupation with numbers or letters, the early and spontaneous ability to read words, and a significant gap between word-level decoding and comprehension”. Despite demonstrating adequate fluency skills, these children are often not understanding what they are reading.

Children with autism also may have limited exposure to oral language, and therefore limited vocabulary, as a result of limited socialization and/or restricted and repetitive interests.

]]> 2021-04-18 21:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430655251 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430697915 The Real Vocabulary app is a language program designed by a speech and language pathologist for children in grades K-5. It focuses on vocabulary included in the core curriculum. This app would be useful for students with ASD  as it allows users to add their own words, pictures, and audio-recordings to support vocabulary, allowing for a more individualized experience.]]> 2021-04-18 22:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430697915 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430704736 Sentence Workout App was created by a certified speech and language pathologist for children ages 6 and up to help practice sentence structures in oral and written form. This would be a beneficial tool for students with ASD as not only is it highly engaging, colorful, and motivating, but it also allows students to say the words in the sentence orally, record themselves to hear it back, and build their own sentences using the learned vocabulary.]]> 2021-04-18 22:25:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430704736 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430716622 Edudadoo app consists of educational games that focus on speech, vocabulary, and creativity of early learning communication skills. This app would be beneficial for students with ASD to learn vocabulary as parents can take pictures of pets, people, and familiar objects to introduce and teach vocabulary, as well as build on known vocabulary through fun stories and activities.]]> 2021-04-18 22:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430716622 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430728332 Fluency refers to the ability to read a text accurately and effortlessly in a way that is both expressive and meaningful. Reading fluently requires the reader to hold previously recognized and understood words in their memory while continuing to read, allowing the them to create meaningful phrases before they speak them. This skill is only possible when decoding words has become automatic.]]> 2021-04-18 22:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430728332 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430731690

Children with autism often display slower reading patterns, reading word by word, as they do not have the extensive understanding of the words that are being read to demonstrate fluency.

As children with autism try to read, all of their cognitive capacity is focused on trying to sound out each word, which doesn’t allow them to integrate the words into meaningful phrases.

]]> 2021-04-18 22:50:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430731690 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430738456 Stories2Learn app allows users to create personalized stories using pictures, texts, and audio messages, which can be used to promote literacy and communication skills.
This app would be beneficial to students with ASD as it allows teachers, clinicians, or parents to make talking books using pictures from their environment and daily routine of their life. Allowing students to record the books digitally can help promote fluency.]]> 2021-04-18 22:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430738456 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430796421 Story Patch app allows users to create their own stories using over 800 illustrations and customizable characters. Story themes can be determined by asking the user a series of questions, making illustrations, importing photos, and sharing the final product with friend via PDF. This app would be beneficial for students with ASD to promote reading fluency as it offers a guided story creation mode to help facilitate the story creation. Final products can be read aloud and shared with friends/family to increase reading fluency.]]> 2021-04-18 23:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430796421 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430813410 The Pictello app allows users to create and share visual stories that play the story back. One can add their own pictures, videos, and/or audio recordings, making sharing information easier while simultaneously promoting literacy. This would be a beneficial tool for students with ASD to increase fluency as it offers step-by-step support to create a visual story and allows the text to be read in addition to recording, as listening to stories read aloud also promotes fluency.]]> 2021-04-18 23:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430813410 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430845468 Text comprehension refers to the reader's ability to think intentionally about what they are reading so they can develop meaning by relating it to what they know; it is understanding what they are reading and putting the information to use. Text comprehension is considered the most dynamic and complex of all reading skills.]]> 2021-04-19 00:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430845468 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430850542

Children with ASD struggle with shifting their attention from word to sentence level, in addition to connecting words and sentences to create understanding of the text, as well as memory capacity.

Children with ASD also have difficulty creating an organizational structure or schema to facilitate their memory to promote reading comprehension.

]]> 2021-04-19 00:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430850542 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430863537 Question Builder App is designed to help users learn how to answer abstract questions and create responses based on inference. This would be a helpful tool for students with ASD in assisting with comprehension as the use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing.]]> 2021-04-19 00:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430863537 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430956948 Sequence It! is an app designed to promote the understanding of processes by sequencing images by the order in which they occurred. This is a beneficial comprehension tool for ASD students as putting images in the proper sequence helps users gain a better understanding of cause and effect, processes and series of actions, encouraging literacy, expanding vocabulary, and understanding story event sequences.]]> 2021-04-19 01:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430956948 rwebs010 https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430985318 Comprehension Builder is an app is designed to help users develop skills in passage comprehension, working memory, and answering multiple choice questions related to a text through multi-levels and a variety of fictional and nonfictional texts. This app would be beneficial for students with ASD in promoting comprehension skills as it offers incremental learning, meaning new levels will not be unlocked until previous skills are mastered, in addition to rewards that are fun and engaging.]]> 2021-04-19 01:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rwebs010/ydt9empjt399304r/wish/1430985318