Abstract

This article investigated the effectiveness of Computer-aided instructions (CAI) that utilize a high interactive and motivating multimedia settings in teaching reading and writing skills to students with autism. Specifically, this article investigated using “an interactive and child-initiated microcomputer program (Alpha)” in teaching students with autism reading and writing skills. This program use on-screen animations as well as videodisc material that gives the child an immediate feedback and each noun or verb is immediately animated during sentence creation, and after completion the whole sentence is shown in text and as an animation. Moreover, the teacher provides the student with promoting atmosphere by asking questions that can help the student to learn new structure of language. The sample of population of this study was grouped to three groups (30 participants). All students had considerable progress while training by Alpha tests. Also, students were able to generalize gains by Alpha in phonological awareness and reading.