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FAQs about anaphoric cuing and reading comprehension

Q: What, briefly, is anaphoric cuing?
A: Anaphoric cuing involves teaching the child to identify the anaphora and to pause to relate them to their reference words while reading. In this way, the student begins to connect the parts of the text to one another.

The problem of the read-aloud

By Sara Finegan One of the most frequent questions I get, from special education and general education teachers alike, is how to deal with the fact that their students with autism do not pay attention during story time.  Readers with autism are generally not good listeners and often will not only fail to attend to [...]

So he resists reading: What does he like?

When we have students with reading comprehension problems, perhaps with hyperlexia, who have difficulty making meaning of what they read, it helps greatly if they care that they don’t get it. Do they want to know about these characters and what is happening to them?

Hello, World 2! Leave us a comment and tell us why you visited

  Our very first post, on August 15, 2009 (just four months ago), was titled “Hello World!”  At the time, with no one even knowing we existed who wasn’t a blood relative, it seemed a little pretentious. So no one is as surprised as we are today to notice that in the past 10 days [...]

Hope for Haiti Telethon, Jan. 22; Need, today

It has nothing directly to do with reading or autism but everything to do with being a caring human being. At 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, January 22, a voluntary collection of cable networks will simulcast the Hope for Haiti telethon to raise money for earthquake relief. Actor George Clooney, Musician/singer Wyclef Jean (himself [...]

Happy New Year!

  Our New Years Eve was hectic.  We got hacked and had to restore both our websites, this one and The Demanding Classroom.  Readers With Autism is now back up and running and we’ve added security measures that should make us less vulnerable to a repeat performance. Sorry if anyone was inconvenienced during the time we were [...]

A matter of full disclosure

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Anaphoric cuing: Asking clarifying questions

Comprehension problems are not unique to kids on the autism spectrum, and some practical hints on how to use anaphoric cuing can be gleaned from the literature on reading comprehension generally.