Kids Got Chromebooks?? They Might Also Need Read&Write for Google!
Chromebooks are everywhere in schools! Students use them to read assignments, complete worksheets, write responses, and access classroom materials. But simply giving a student a Chromebook doesn’t necessarily give them the tools they need to use it successfully.
For students with Williams syndrome (WS), that’s an important distinction.
If your child with Williams syndrome is 12, 15, or 18 and still cannot read—or cannot read well—please hear this:
Their opportunity to become a reader has not expired.
These are the presentation slides from Dr. Robin Pegg's Top 10 Back to School tips Webinar from September 15, 2026
These are the presentation slides from Dr. Robin Pegg's Top 10 Back to School tips Webinar from September 16, 2026
Robin Pegg, MEd, COTA/L, ATP, Carolyn Mervis, PhD, Virtual Convention 10/8/2020
This session will focus on how to design instructional experiences to support optimal success for the school-age student with Williams syndrome. We will specifically address the following:
In general, students with Williams syndrome learn best with consistency, structured instructional routines, clear and realistic expectations, social stories, scripts and visual schedules, and technology. In particular, students with WS are often very effective users of computers and iPads/tablets. They also benefit from “chunking” of material into manageable parts, audio and dynamic visual supports, rhyme, rhythm and cadence, music and/or performing, finding materials that they have an emotional connection with, and specific praise. Above all, it is important to provide the material in a variety of ways. Adapting strategies to pre-teach, teach, and then re-teach, in order to enforce concepts, can be very helpful.
Children with Williams syndrome who have been taught reading used a systematic phonics approach both decode and comprehend significantly better than children who have been taught to use a whole word approach, Consideration of these patterns in the context of what is known about the reading development of children in the general population provides a strong foundation of facilitating the reading development of children with Williams syndrome.
Happy Back to School!
Introducing the Updated Educational profile for Students with Williams Syndrome.
This profile is based on years of research and is designed to share key information to teachers and school providers.
Updates include:
