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  • How well are children with autism spectrum disorder doing academically at school? An overview of the literature

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    Keen, Deb
    Webster, Amanda
    Ridley, Greta
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    Keen, Deb A.
    Year published
    2016
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    The academic achievement of individuals with autism spectrum disorder has received little attention from researchers despite the importance placed on this by schools, families and students with autism spectrum disorder. Investigating factors that lead to increased academic achievement thus would appear to be very important. A review of the literature was conducted to identify factors related to the academic achievement of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. A total of 19 studies were identified that met the inclusion criteria for the review. Results indicated that many individuals demonstrate specific ...
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    The academic achievement of individuals with autism spectrum disorder has received little attention from researchers despite the importance placed on this by schools, families and students with autism spectrum disorder. Investigating factors that lead to increased academic achievement thus would appear to be very important. A review of the literature was conducted to identify factors related to the academic achievement of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. A total of 19 studies were identified that met the inclusion criteria for the review. Results indicated that many individuals demonstrate specific areas of strength and weakness and there is a great deal of variability in general academic achievement across the autism spectrum. Adolescents and individuals with lower IQ scores were underrepresented, and few studies focused on environmental factors related to academic success. The importance of individualised assessments that profile the relative strengths and weaknesses of children and adolescents to aid in educational programming was highlighted. Further research on child-related and environmental factors that predict academic achievement is needed.
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    Journal Title
    Autism
    Volume
    20
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361315580962
    Copyright Statement
    © 2015 SAGE Publications and The National Autistic Society. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Specialist studies in education
    Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified
    Psychology
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/123693
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