How Do I Teach This Kid to Read?: Teaching Literacy Skills to Young Children with Autism, from Phonics to Fluency

by Kimberly A. Henry

Overview

First Runner-Up in the 2006 Writer’s Notes Book Awards!

This book utilizes the strengths of children with ASD to help them develop new skills. Tasks are visually oriented and consistent, and expectations are clear. Children learn motor, matching, sorting, reading, writing, and math skills using easy-to-make “task boxes.”

Tasks include pushing items through small openings (children love the “resistance” it takes to push them through), matching simple, identical pictures or words, sorting objects by color, size, or shape, and more!

Ideas are plentiful, materials colorful, and children love the repetitive nature of the “tasks,” which help them learn to work independently! Sample data sheets are included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935274148
Publisher:	Future Horizons, Inc.
Publication date:	10/15/2010
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Kimberly A. Henry is a special educator with over twenty years experience working with students with autism and other developmental disorders. She received her master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. After beginning her teaching career as a general education teacher in middle school, she switched to special education. Kim taught special education at the middle school and preschool levels, and in an elementary specialized autism program.
 
Ms. Henry is the noted author of the "How Do I Teach This Kid?" series, through which she provides practical, easy-to-implement ideas for using visual strategies to teach children with autism or other developmental challenges. In addition to being a university adjunct instructor, Kim currently works as a teacher specialist, providing technical assistance and mentoring to teachers of children with autism from preschool through elementary grades.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Building Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Skills ABC Book Thematic ABC Book ABC Action Chant Fridge Phonics Dr. Seuss and Friends Magic Word Book Dipthong Song Building Vocabulary My Picture Book Environmental Print Book Word Wall Thematic Word Wall Audio Card Reader One Word Text Picture Me Reading Word Web List Poem Building Comprehension Language Experience Story Book Box Simon Says Book Text Picture Match Cover Picture Prediction Picture Walk Question Sticks Question Cues Use the Clues Thinking in Pictures Comment Stop Feelings It's Right There Visual Organizers Building Fluency Read to Me Echo Reading Predictable Text Pacing Board Sentence Builders Adapted Books Additional Resources References