Effective Teaching Strategies for Aspergers and HFA Students (Summary of PowerPoint Presentation)
The following summary identifies the specific learning difficulties of Aspergers and high functioning autistic students and suggests a number of possible classroom strategies: Difficulties with language— “Comic Strip Conversations” can be applied to a range of problems with conversation skills difficulty understanding complex language, following directions, and understanding intent of words with multiple meanings encourage the student to ask for an instruction to be repeated, simplified or written down if he does not understand explain metaphors and words with double meanings limit oral questions to a number the student can manage pause between instructions and check for understanding small group instruction for conversational skills teach appropriate opening comments teach rules and cues regarding turn-taking in conversation and when to reply, interrupt or change the topic teach student to seek assistance when confused tendency to interrupt tendency to make irrel