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  Our ORS kaiako and I visited the units at Marfell to get some ideas to support our ORS tamariki. One idea I particularly loved was to build capacity around letter identification. It didn't matter that the tamaiti selected random letters, but when their sentence was orally shared with the kaiako, and they selected letters off their card, they were shown which ones they may have got right to support the connection. It is just another way of building literacy into our programme for our high needs tamariki but also at a new entrant level. I think it is quite genius. Autistic children can experience delays and challenges in learning letters, letter recognition, and writing letters. Writing and reading are powerful communication skills. But before they begin to learn to read or write, they must first learn to recognise and identify letters. Teaching autistic children letter recognition is an essential step in their emergent literacy skills and this is why I really loved this idea. Anot...