Autistic children benefited from online literacy instruction during COVID pandemic
Despite many obstacles presented by students being at home during COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, autistic children involved in a feasibility study still showed significant progress through online instruction. Flinders University's Professor Joanne Arciuli, who led the study, says that developing useful tools for this area of literacy teaching plugs a gap in autistic care.
Autistic children who received online literacy instruction through the ABRACADABRA program during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated notable improvements in reading abilities, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic and the transition from in-person to virtual sessions. Professor Joanne Arciuli, who led the feasibility study, emphasized that the study's unexpected shift to one-to-one online instruction provided a unique opportunity to assess the impact of literacy instruction under real-world conditions similar to those faced in clinical settings.
The findings, published in the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, suggest that telepractice can effectively support literacy instruction for autistic children, particularly those in areas with limited access to face-to-face services.
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