A teacher works through reading comprehension with Cindy Kay using the Autism Helper Level 1 worksheet, reading sentences like "Jack is wearing a blue hat" and having her select and circle the correct answer word on her AAC device. Cindy shows growing ability to recognize words and transfer vocabulary from device practice to written tasks.
So this is a very interesting today. I just did her reading comprehension level 1 sheet from the Autism Helper. It's really more listening comprehension and focusing on letters versus words than it is actual reading comprehension at this point, but I do try to back off and allow her to do as much reading as possible. Possible to see what she knows. But on this it says, listen and find the answer. I read, Jack is wearing a blue hat. What is Jack wearing? Sandy Kay went to her device and she said, hat. So I said, go ahead and circle that answer. Then we said, then I read, listen and find the answer. Tom's shirt got dirty. What got dirty? And she pointed to this. And I said, I totally get why you think that is a shirt, but it's actually a sweatshirt, and this would be the shirt that got dirty. And I went into her device and I said, you can see under clothing there's that word sweatshirt that we added, and here shirt would be. Shirt. Then it says you're going to circle the word in each sentence. And I just, I know she has asked for milk before, so I said, "Cindy Kay, what is that word?" She immediately went to drink and she said, "Milk." I was like, "Okay, great. Let's read the sentence and you circle that word 'milk.'" "He drinks milk," and she circled it. This word right here, she did not know, but I said, "Cindy Kay, we've been talking about that word this week." if you go to the word "need," you can find that word in this section. And she went directly and said, "Snow." That's right. So there is a lot of snow, and she circled that word. She has said the word "door" before on her device, so I was curious if she could actually read it. And here's the word "door," and she immediately went to "live," "home parts," and she said, "Door." So I think there's a lot of reading going on up here at this top that is now translating to her worksheets, and that's very exciting for me. As far as this word right here, she also went to "live," but instead of saying "home," she said, "Live." I said, "You are absolutely right. This word is inside of this sentence." It's an orange button. She immediately went up and said, "Home." So there's a lot of reading literacy instruction happening all the time. It's kind of exciting for me.
