Teachers, this is how to boost the experiential knowledge of students with autism: expert

Margaret Ryan

By Margaret Ryan
Published November 27, 2019

Imagine this in your classroom. You’re reading aloud a text. Your regular students can use their bank of experiences to interpret it and to inform how they feel about it.

You can almost see that the discussion is stimulating their brains in multiple ways.

As Professor John Munro of the ...

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