Autistic children benefited from online literacy instruction during COVID pandemic

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Despite many obstacles presented by students being at home during COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, autistic children involved in a feasibility study still showed significant progress through online instruction. Flinders University's Professor Joanne Arciuli, who led the study, says that developing useful tools for this area of literacy teaching plugs a gap in autistic care.
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