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Computers Motivate Students with Autism!

young boyThose who have worked closely with students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) know how much they can benefit from carefully designed computer-delivered interventions.

Software programs can provide the highly structured interactions needed to illustrate the formal aspects of language. They can also be used as tools to improve communication and social interaction.

Given the difficulty that students with ASD have in communicative and social contexts, they frequently have problems learning and focusing in teaching dyads. Software actually provides them an opportunity to focus on content by eliminating the distractions of human instruction.

Laureate’s Autism Packages will not only motivate your students with ASD, but will promote their language development as well.

This was demonstrated in a recent study of three to six year old children with ASD where the students were more attentive and motivated when using a computer than they were with the human instructor. More importantly, they actually learned and retained more vocabulary items with computer administered training than they did with one-on-one instruction with a teacher (Moore & Calvert, 2000).

Laureate’s two-level Autism/PDD Package addresses the language and communication needs of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

The 12 programs in Level 1 are for students with very limited communication skills. It contains software for cause & effect training, early vocabulary development, emerging syntax, category concepts, and expressive language.

The programs in the package provide both highly-structured direct instruction as well as opportunities for independent exploration. For example, the Talking Series can be used to train turn-taking, commenting, and requesting in a non-threatening environment where the student can activate keys and pictures to produce sentences. TalkTime with Tucker can be used to encourage vocalizations. Simple Sentence Structure helps students establish Subject-Verb-Object word order for the comprehension and production of sentences. First Categories develops early categorization skills.

The 20 programs in Level 2 are for students who are communicating but are not yet proficient in understanding and using their language. The software includes programs for auditory awareness, discrimination and processing, following directions, syntax mastery, vocabulary and concept development, irregular verb use, and narrative development.

Students will increase their vocabulary knowledge to include not only naming but also understanding the functions of various objects, the categories into which they belong, paired associations, attributes, and opposites. They will learn the important concepts of same and different and will develop the ability to follow one- and two-stage auditory directions.

Tiger’s Tale will help them not only with expressive language but also understanding and responding to various social situations. Swim, Swam, Swum provides listening, reading, and spelling activities designed to help students master high-frequency irregular verbs.

Laureate’s Autism Packages will not only motivate your students with ASD, but will promote their language development as well.


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