Article
Understanding Character Perspective: Strategies to Support Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder
The Reading Teacher
(2018)
Abstract
Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) display social communication differences that may affect reading comprehension. The enjoyment of storybooks is a natural part of childhood. Students with ASD experience difficulty with understanding the thoughts and feelings of others, which may impede their comprehension of character motive in narrative text. Research‐based strategies for helping students with ASD understand character perspective in narrative text, including graphic organizers, anaphoric cueing, and question‐answer relationships, are described. Understanding different characters’ perspectives may help students with ASD develop reading comprehension and their overall enjoyment of narrative text.
Disciplines
Publication Date
July 1, 2018
DOI
10.1002/trtr.1682
Citation Information
Elizabeth G. Finnegan and Amy L. Accardo. "Understanding Character Perspective: Strategies to Support Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder" The Reading Teacher Vol. 72 Iss. 1 (2018) p. 71 - 80 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/amy-accardo/16/