Potential of ICT in Teaching English as a Foreign Language Focused on Autistic Spectrum Learners

Abstract

The number of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) educated under mainstream school system is still raising. Since English is a compulsory subject for every school child in Slovakia, students with ASDs also belong to the group of English language learners. Thereupon causing worries to teachers and calling for a necessity of a wider concept. The purpose of the study is to help the ASDs learners and their teachers to acquire the curriculum under the virtue of ICT. Data were collected via the Case Study as the main research, based on teacher´s daily experience in teaching English to ASDs children. Results are presented in the form tables and figures and prove the expectation to meet special educational needs of ASDs.