Learning to Read in Primary School Children with ASD and Intellectual Disabilities at the «Reading and Speech Development» Class

Children with autism and intellectual disabilities are able to master the reading skill in the conditions of systematicprolonged and adaptive learning. A teacher who realizes present task is important to know and takeinto account not only actual, but also potential mental abilities of the student. It is important for the teacherto apply new techniques of correctional pedagogy in his work, supplementing them with classical evidencedbasedand reliable ones with the reliance on the zone of proximal development and on the principles of specialpedagogy, in particular: developing education, accessibility, visibility, systemic and individuality. It is importantfor a teacher to remember that he is not only teaches, but also forming the personality of the child as awhole. The experience of teaching children with autism spectrum disorders and moderate intellectual disabilitiesto read who are educating in the school of the Federal Resource Center for Organization of ComprehensiveSupport to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders is described.