Explain how it is useful as an instructional strategy to promote writing in students with ASD.
What will be an ideal response?
Visuals or graphic organizers can be used to gather student thoughts.Students with ASD have difficulty organizing and sequencing thoughts, especially in writing.They may be able to visualize well-developed ideas, but getting the idea onto paper is much like translating something into a different language (Oehler, 2013).One strategy Oehler recommends is the use of visual strategies facilitated by an adult.For example, the teacher can ask a student what he knows about the topic, and as the student talks, the adult draws simple pictures or writes keywords to represent student ideas along a straight line, or “timeline.”At the end of this exercise, the student “reads” the assignment to the adult, using the pictures/keywords as prompts.This verbal exercise helps the student hear the logical flow of language, and can help the student complete the writing assignment using the “timeline” as visual support.
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