TEACHING FOUNDATIONAL READING SKILLS TO STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
Teaching Foundational Reading Skills to Students With Intellectual Disabilities
TEACHING Exceptional Children, Vol. XX, No. X, pp. 1–9. Copyright 2021 The Author(s). DOI: 10.1177/0040059920976674Teaching Foundational
Reading Skills to Students With Intellectual Disabilities – Kathleen M. Whitbread , Central Connecticut State University,Sheryl L. Knapp, Literacy Learning and Assessment Center of Connecticut,and Melissa Bengtson, Down Syndrome Association of Connecticut
Literacy Instruction for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This chapter addresses research-based literacy instruction for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It begins with a discussion of these disabilities, highlighting some common impairments that exist across such disability labels which can make literacy learning a challenge. Examples are provided that outline ways to address literacy skills, specifically in the area of reading. In addition, this chapter invites teachers to consider the ways in which traditional forms of literacy instruction can result in barriers to some students’ participation in literacy learning and encourages finding ways to remove such barriers so that all students, including those with more significant forms of disability, can benefit.
Literacy Instruction for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
