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 Bookstream Reading printed textbooks can feel hopeless for your students with autism. To be successful, they typically need the text to be read aloud and plenty of opportunities to read. Bookstream gives your students anywhere access to their textbooks on their iPads, smartphones, and laptops. And since Bookstream is fully accessible, your students can use their text-to-speech software to read the text aloud.
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 Read:OutLoud 6 provides access to the curriculum by reading text out loud and supporting students as they use comprehension strategies. Many students with autism have auditory comprehension skills that exceed traditional print comprehension—Read:OutLoud lets you take advantage of that strength! In addition to leveraging their more developed auditory comprehension skills, Read:OutLoud provides Outline Templates that guide students to use reading comprehension strategies. Electronic highlighters and notecards allow students to capture important information and then organize, synthesize and interact with it to make meaningful connections with the text.
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 Start-to-Finish
Literacy Starters are computer and paperback books that use
professionally narrated stories to get your students with autism engaged
and learning to read. Developed specifically for older non- and
beginning readers, your adolescent students with autism can participate
in curriculum-tied topics that are also embedded with “social and life
skills” messages. Strong visual cues, concrete language, the three
levels of text that accompany each story set and vocabulary and picture
symbol cards, help you not only build literacy skills, but also
supplement and create alternative curriculum that meets state standards.
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 Simon S.I.O. uses a personal tutor to
engage and deliver individualized
phonics instruction and corrective
feedback. Progression through activities are based on performance so
students with autism must master letter sounds, blends and word
families—rather than memorize them—before they can move ahead. Students
record and listen to themselves reading controlled text, helping them
develop inflection and intonation.
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 Edmark Reading is balanced early reading instruction that builds basic
skills through short instructional sets—keeping students with autism and
Asperger’s on task. Level 1 includes 227 lessons and 30 stories that
contain 150 words from the Dolch word list. Level 2 goes on to teach 200
more words (and multiple suffixes) through 345 additional lessons and
50 stories!
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 WordMaker improves the word-attack and
spelling skills of your students with autism by providing highly
interactive and individualized instruction. Varied activities and
corrective feedback teach students with autism to detect letter and word
patterns and generalize those skills to unknown words. Since WordMaker
leverages the widely used Four-Blocks® Literacy Model approach, it is
the perfect intervention for students in inclusion settings.
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 Earobics teaches phonemic awareness, auditory processing skills and
phonological awareness through highly engaging multi-sensory activities.
Lessons focus on teaching students with autism how to speak, read and
spell words. Earobics is a favorite intervention of speech and language
pathologists and is available in three steps: Step 1 addresses learners
ages 4-7, Step 2 is for ages 7-10 and Step 3 is for early adolescents
and adults.
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