The number of children
identified with an autism
spectrum disorder (ASD)
continues to rise with recent
figures estimating 1 in 88
children have an ASD?
Over the next year, Dr. Kelly Whalon and colleagues of the Center for Excellence in Early
Childhood Studies will conduct two single case research studies investigating the impact
of Reading to Engage Children with Autism in Language and Learning (RECALL) on the
language, literacy, and social communication skills of young children with ASD. RECALL
is an adaptation of an evidence based shared reading intervention, dialogic reading. In
addition to the dialogic reading prompts and instructional sequence, RECALL embeds (1)
strategies shown to be effective for young children with ASD, and (2) instructional targets
that address the core challenges of young children with ASD that influence current and
future literacy and language skills (e.g., joint attention, social reciprocity, emotion
identification, and inference making).
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