The practice is about teaching a 8-year old child who has been diagnosed with autism. The teaching sessions are concerned with the subject Bulgarian language and literature. There are two sessions of 35 minutes each, every week, scheduled for Monday and Thursday.

The teaching has been carried out for two school years now. In the beginning, the child was not used to me, the teacher, and the mother was present during the lessons, which was not necessary after some time and she did not attend the classes anymore. The child was very often ill – during the first year, when the child was in the first grade, he was absent from 1/3 (one third) of the classes, for medical reasons. During the current school year, 2017/2018, the child was absent from ¼ of the classes included in the individual teaching programme.

Achievements during the two school years: the child can produce in writing letters, syllables and short words if he gets physical support from the teacher by holding his hand. He recognizes the written symbol of all the vowels and consonants in the Alphabet. He can differentiate between block letters and handwritten letters; he can arrange word-prompts into sentences; he recognizes punctuation symbols – full stop, comma, question mark. The child can match a picture or a photo to their names/titles, pronounces well and intelligible more than twenty new words during the last school year and also attempts to pronounce three-syllable words, following my examples.