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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 [...]

When a reader with autism needs to respond to literature…

By Sara Finegan What happens when a reader with autism needs to respond to literature? My focus in reading comprehension instruction this fall is all about responses to literature, and by this I mean writing in depth about what we read.   An essential component to the basic reading response is the way we connect to [...]