Teaching Rudimentary Reading Skills to Students with Autism

Picture naming relation was also taught. In the test, it was assessed the emergence of relations between printed words and pictures, between dictated words and printed words and naming printed words. The two participants required a low number of attempts in the multi-sample matching procedure to achieve the learning criteria of the tasks and presented emergence of relations not directly taught.

The results showed that, in the naming tasks, the participants presented improvement in the performance in the relations evaluated (naming pictures, words, letters and vowels). The two participants maintained zero performance in naming syllables. Future studies should consider the behavioral characteristics of the participants as a resource for teaching planning.