Effectiveness of Oral Repeated Reading With Autistic Language Learners

The study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of oral repeated reading on children with autism while teaching English. Its findings might serve as a basis for the development of reading instructional materials in English and help English teachers prepare related lesson plans for such impaired students. Every day the number of people with ASD is increasing and what’s more, most of them should go on studying with their disabled peers in public schools. The researcher only ventured to study 3 male student respondents enrolled in a Primary School in Turkey who were medically diagnosed with autism with speech disfluencies and learning / reading comprehension problems. The researcher combined Dolch Sight Word Test and the Woodcock – Johnson Test to measure their reading and learning abilities. It was aimed to evaluate students’ cognitive processes as well as their reading performance. The results were calculated by the Word Recognition (WR) test formula and displayed on tables. Finally, to determine CWA’s reading levels Gickling and Armstrong measuring technique was used. Test results of the study showed that oral repeated reading technique can be effectively used with such children to increase their reading fluency and comprehension of the vocabulary in English and as an intervention to increase overall fluency