Tag Archives: expressive language

What were they thinking? Teach vocabulary!

Those of us attempting to help struggling readers on the spectrum to comprehend what they read in narrative, in text, are limited by the breadth of the child’s working vocabulary. Anything we can do to expand that working vocabulary pushes us closer to a grade-appropriate level of reading comprehension.

Finding the words: Helping a child with autism talk about reading

By Sara Finegan Weak reading comprehension for children with autism is a dysfunctional cycle that can be broken if we work at it over time.  The cycle is this: Autism involves expressive and receptive language deficits. Kids with receptive language disorders have difficulty understanding what words mean.   Kids with expressive language disorders have difficulty using [...]

Intermezzo: A word about the spectrum

By Sara Finegan The autism spectrum is a vast and invisible entity and as I explore and write about the world of the reader with autism, you are probably wondering “well, just a damned minute here. Is she writing about someone like my kid, or does she teach the high-level kids who just have some [...]