[Simtrainer-l] Inference Strategy & Students with ASD

[Nanette S. Fritschmann]

Hi Rosanne,

I have implemented the strategy with students with ASD. As you said, there is such a broad spectrum that it's hard to offer guidelines without knowing more about the characteristics of the student with whom she works.

I can say that in my experiences, the students were either integrated in an inclusion classroom or in receiving pullout/small group strategic supports and all evidenced gains in all inference question types. The best suggestion I can give is to have the teacher choose leveled text/passages that the student has some knowledge of or experience and to develop questions/answers accordingly, once the student has shown understanding of the question types. I do think there would need to be a lot of thought put into the passages used, and the amount of time to practice those inference skills that may be more difficult for the individual reader.

Hope this helps and happy to discuss it further!

Nanette

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Subject: [Simtrainer-l] Inference Strategy & Students with ASD

We have a participant in an Inference Strategy PD who is working with a student with ASD and she is concerned about the student's ability to "connect" with the text and find clues.  This student is a client and the parent will need to understand how the strategy works and what the expected outcomes could be.  We understand how broad the spectrum in, but ...

Has anyone implemented the strategy with students with ASD? If so, what kind of outcomes did the students experience?
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