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Caesar
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 Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject: Teaching Idioms to Autistic Children |
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| I teach children in a New York City public school. Many of them are autistic or have other developmental issues. They have difficulty in understanding anything that does not have a concrete or literal explanation or meaning. If something "goes over their head" they do not see the idiomatic meaning. Has anyone had any experience or have any ideas of how to teach such things as idioms to these types of learners?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| You may want to check out research and other material by M. A. Nippold. She has much material that you can easily access through a Google search although you may have to pay for some of the articles. She deals with issues related to such things as idiom comprehension in language-disordered students.
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howlandc
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| Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching Idioms to Autistic Children |
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| Caesar wrote: |
| I teach children in a New York City public school. Many of them are autistic or have other developmental issues. They have difficulty in understanding anything that does not have a concrete or literal explanation or meaning. If something "goes over their head" they do not see the idiomatic meaning. Has anyone had any experience or have any ideas of how to teach such things as idioms to these types of learners? |
I have some of the same issues with my English language learners. I have had some success by helping them to discern between figurative and literal language. We have read 'Amelia Bedelia' by Peggy Parish, and created posters with two sides - one to show what the idiom really means (the figurative meaning) and the other side showing the ridiculous literal meaning of the idiom.
I also have them focus on one kid of idiom at a time - Body idioms - and have them fill in a body shape on butcher block paper with the idioms - or baseball idioms filling in the shape of a ball diamond. I have found that the more the students get to play with the idioms and see the humor in them, the faster they catch on to them.
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howlandc
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| Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching Idioms to Autistic Children |
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| Caesar wrote: |
| I teach children in a New York City public school. Many of them are autistic or have other developmental issues. They have difficulty in understanding anything that does not have a concrete or literal explanation or meaning. If something "goes over their head" they do not see the idiomatic meaning. Has anyone had any experience or have any ideas of how to teach such things as idioms to these types of learners? |
I have some of the same issues with my English language learners. I have had some success by helping them to discern between figurative and literal language. We have read 'Amelia Bedelia' by Peggy Parish, and created posters with two sides - one to show what the idiom really means (the figurative meaning) and the other side showing the ridiculous literal meaning of the idiom.
I also have them focus on one kid of idiom at a time - Body idioms - and have them fill in a body shape on butcher block paper with the idioms - or baseball idioms filling in the shape of a ball diamond. I have found that the more the students get to play with the idioms and see the humor in them, the faster they catch on to them.
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