School is a place for students to interact: with each other, with adults, and even with themselves in roles outside of their family. Students with Autism may experience difficulty with communicating, specifically with expressive language skills.
Expressive language is
defined as the ability to communicate with others using language. This involves vocabulary, listening,
grammar, along with other ways that someone communicates
thoughts/feelings/wants/needs. Some
difficulties is that students with ASD face is that they may hear and mimic
words, but do not understand or comprehend fully. Hyperlexia is when someone displays great rote memory and
decoding ability, which is another possibility when dealing with ASD and
communication difficulties. This website
features many activities and ideas for teaching expressive communication
skills. Gold mine, alert! Some include: sequencing, retelling,
discussion maps, preview charts, defining map, sentence flip, and more. Check
it out!
Resources: http://casd.binghamton.edu/node/16,
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