LSquared : Early Literacy and Language Support for Families and Their Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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The purpose of this grant is to establish sustainable, parent-directed, comprehensive community supports for literacy and language (L2) of children with autism spectrum disorder, prioritizing those with limited spoken language. The strain on parents of children with autism spectrum disorder are already great without adding the burden of continuously creating novel literacy experiences for their children. This is why our parent-directed training will also equip the community to be able to meet literacy needs so that parents and their children can go into the community and access universally designed literacy experiences. We will do this by providing comprehensive L2 training to parents, librarians, speech language-pathologist, teachers, and other child-centered community partners. Our focus will be on improving the home, community, and school literacy environment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder with the greatest support needs through evidence-based literacy and communication instruction.