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 alone we have had visitors to Readers With Autism from:

• India
• Sweden (Sara är född i Uppsala)
• Australia
• The Philippines
• Great Britain
• Malta
• Panama
• Israel  (ken, anachnu yehudim, ve Sara makira et ha-aretz tov-tov)
• Canada
• and more than a dozen U.S. states

Most of the visitors come looking for information about anaphoric cuing, and we are proud to be in the forefront of websites talking about that strategy, and perhaps the only one showing teachers and parents how to use it to help a struggling reader.

We are happy you found us and we want to help anyone who is attempting to improve the reading comprehension of a child with autism, Asperger Syndrome, or hyperlexia. 

Leave us your comments.  Tell us about your experience teaching a reader with autism?  What has worked for you?  What has not worked for you?  What is your experience with anaphoric cuing?  If you are a student yourself, do you have questions about this technique that our posts haven’t answered? 

We have found this small niche for ourselves in the huge internet and we like it, so let us hear your thoughts about anaphoric cuing.  We’ll be happy to share them with the world.

Related posts:

1. FAQs about anaphoric cuing and reading comprehension
2. Anaphoric cuing: Asking clarifying questions
3. Autism and hyperlexia, part 2: Helping Bobby read