Students with Autism: How to improve language, literacy, and academic success

Beals describes the root causes of the language and learning challenges in autism, their various academic consequences, and a variety of tools and strategies for addressing them. Drawing on what the most current evidence shows about the nature of autism and which therapies are most successful, the book discusses the implications for autism—friendly instruction in academic subjects, noting the ways in which today's classrooms come up short, and suggesting various adjustments that teachers ca...