Enhancing Reading Comprehension Among Students With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomized Pilot Study
Year: 2015
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: Reading with comprehension is a challenge for students with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Unfortunately, research has little to offer to teachers trying to help these students. The present study pilots a new intervention targeting vocabulary, main idea identification, anaphoric relations, and text structure. Students (N = 13, M age = 9 years) were randomly assigned to either a control or an intervention condition. Descriptive analyses suggest that the intervention is effective; compared with their control condition peers, students in the intervention condition apparently made more progress on the vocabulary, main idea identification, and comprehension measures.
Authors: Catherine Roux, Éric Dion, Anne Barrette
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1487817432