User Centered Reading Intervention for Individuals with Autism and Intellectual Disability

Anita Yakkundi; Karola Dillenburger; Lizbeth Goodman; Katerina Dounavi

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-798-6-249

User Centered Reading Intervention for Individuals with Autism and Intellectual Disability

Anita Yakkundi, Karola Dillenburger, Lizbeth Goodman, Katerina Dounavi

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Abstract

Individuals with autism and intellectual disability (ID) have complex learning needs and often have difficulty in acquiring reading comprehension skills using conventional teaching tools. Evidence based reading interventions for these learners and the use of assistive technology and application of behaviour analysis to develop user-centered teaching is discussed in this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Harnessing the Power of Technology to Improve Lives
Place of Publication	Netherlands
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	249-256
Volume	242
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-61499-798-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-61499-797-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-798-6-249
Publication status	Published - 13 Sept 2017

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Name	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Publisher	IOS Press
Volume	242
ISSN (Electronic)	0926-9630

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AAATE Congress 2017
13/09/2017
Sheffield, United Kingdom

Keywords

Autism
intellectual disability
reading
behaviour analysis
Headsprout®

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User Centered Reading Intervention for Individuals with Autism and Intellectual Disability. / Yakkundi, Anita; Dillenburger, Karola; Goodman, Lizbeth et al.
Harnessing the Power of Technology to Improve Lives. Vol. 242 Netherlands: IOS Press, 2017. p. 249-256 (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; Vol. 242).

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