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- Title
Enhancing Reading Comprehension Among Students With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomized Pilot Study.
- Authors
Roux, Catherine; Dion, Eric; Barrette, Anne
- Abstract
Reading with comprehension is a challenge for students with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Unfortunately, research has little to offer to teachers trying to help these students. The present study pilots a new intervention targeting vocabulary, main idea identification, anaphoric relations, and text structure. Students (N = 13, Mage = 9 years) were randomly assigned to either a control or an intervention condition. Descriptive analyses suggest that the intervention is effective; compared with their control condition peers, students in the intervention condition apparently made more progress on the vocabulary, main idea identification, and comprehension measures.
- Subjects
READING comprehension; AUTISM spectrum disorders; STUDENTS with disabilities; VOCABULARY; ANAPHORA (Linguistics)
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Education / Revue Canadienne de l'Éducation, 2015, Vol 38, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0380-2361
- Publication type
Article