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  This ASHA article is a happy spin on it, but it details why kids with autism, MERLD, SLI and other language impairments can't access Common Core standards: It emphasizes their weakness and expects and demands competence, no matter what.

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School has always been an intensely social experience, but now social interaction is a standardized and educationally relevant skill. What’s made this so is the Common Core State Standards, adopted by 46 states and adapted in other forms, under other names, in others. From elementary school language arts to advanced high school math classes, t[b]he standards set clearly defined expectations for students in pragmatic listening and speaking skills.
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Kindergarten through 12th-grade students “must have ample opportunities to take part in a variety of rich, structured conversations—as part of a whole class, in small groups and with a partner,” declare the College and Career Readiness anchor standards for the Common Core. The standards call on students to respond to and develop others’ comments, compare and contrast, and analyze and synthesize ideas.

This social learning approach makes sense as we prepare students to work with others in the workplace, but it poses a challenge to students with communications challenges and the educators teaching them: T[b]he standards, in many ways, expect students to have already mastered social skills as a means of achieving academic sk[/b]ills, explains Mike Maykish, a speech-language pathologist at Belville Elementary School in North Carolina.

“The Common Core encourages and forces students to interact with one another and learn how to come to a consensus and express opinions,” he says. “It is expected that those interactions are a known thing, that these kids know how to interact. But our kids, particularly those on the speech-language caseload, don’t always have the language skills, or the social interaction skills, to do so in appropriate ways.”

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