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Students with Autism: How to improve language, literacy, and academic success

Students with Autism: How to improve language, literacy, and academic success

by Katharine Beals

Published by: Global Book Sales

Imprint: John Catt Educational

264 Pages, 5.83 x 8.21 in

Paperback
9781915261373
Published: September 2022

$17.95

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Katharine Beals describes the root causes of the language and learning challenges in autism, their various academic consequences, and a variety of tools and strategies for addressing them. Drawing on what the most current evidence shows about the nature of autism and which therapies are most successful, Beals discusses the implications for autism-friendly instruction in academic subjects.

Complete acceptance of individuals on the autism spectrum means rethinking assumptions about autistic students, about how we teach expressive language, about how we teach reading comprehension, and about what and how we teach in the many K-12 classrooms attended by autistic students.

Katharine Beals is the author of Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World: Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School. She has a PhD in linguistics and is an adjunct professor in the Autism Program at the Drexel University School of Education, where she designed two of the program’s five courses.

She also teaches courses on autism at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in language and literacy acquisition in autism, language technologies for autistic individuals, educational challenges for students with autism, and the problems with Facilitated Communication as an intervention in autism.

She is a contributor at FacilitatedCommunication.org and also an autism parent.

"Finally, a book with a truly comprehensive focus on autism-friendly curriculum and instruction, rather than another re-hash of how to create an autism-friendly classroom! Beals provides the best description of teaching language and cognition to children and adults with autism I have seen to date. I heartily recommend her book to all autism ABA practitioners."
Kent Johnson, Founder & Executive Director, Morningside Academy