A case study about strategies used to teach a student with Asperger syndrome

Abstract

This study was carried out to identify the strategies used to teach a student with Asperger syndrome. In order to explore the phenomenon before mentioned, the English teacher and the student with Asperger syndrome were taken into account as sample at Taggeschule y San Gerardo High School in Loja city. The intention of this case study was precisely to identify the strategies that the English teacher uses to teach the student with Asperger syndrome and the involvement of this student when using them. The methods used for collecting data were qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative method allowed identifying the appropriate strategies to teach the student with Asperger syndrome and the quantitative method allowed analyzing the numeric data satisfactorily. At the same way, the data collection was done satisfactorily through semi-structured interviews and observation sheets that allowed identifying the student´s involvement in the English classes. Hence, the present work points out details and difficulties that not only the student with Asperger syndrome presents but also the teacher faces in the teaching-learning process