Emergent literacy activities, instructional adaptations and school absence of children with cerebral palsy in special education

▶ Children with CP received fewer opportunities to work with educational software and more time was dedicated to rhyming games and singing. ▶ Although the amount of time the groups were training the diverse reading precursors was comparable, children with CP were mostly training the more easy reading precursors such as Auditory Perception and Rhyme. ▶ Children with CP were receiving more emergent literacy instruction outside the classroom compared to their peers. ▶ For the children with CP, the level of speech, intellectual, and physical impairments were all related to the amount of time in emergent literacy instruction. Additionally, the amount of time reading precursors are trained and the number of specific reading precursors that are trained are all related to skills of emergent literacy.