Why Dekko Comics are Helpful for Autistic Readers

Dekko Comics have proven not just great resources, but also ideal reading books for autistic children.

People with autism tend to respond much better to clear sensory material than they do with words; such as visuals, colour, storytelling, characters, etc. All of which Dekko Comics is packed with!

Below are some examples of why Dekko is highly beneficial for autism reading and learning:

Clear & Easy to Follow:

The cartoon face expressions and postures of the Dekko Comics characters are naturally exaggerated. This makes their emotions much easier for an autistic reader to understand and engage with, in the same way that Disney is.

Panels space out the action so that it’s clear how the story flows and doesn’t overwhelm the reader with too much information. This makes them great comic books for autistic children.

Each comic story / lesson is just two pages long. This makes them easier to read and remember, with a clear beginning, middle and end in sight. As soon as they open the page, they can instinctively tell this story is digestible and non-intimidating in length. Short fun comic book stories help autistic children to read. 

Providing More Than Just Dry Text

Whereas a textbook will just provide straight information, with nothing much to hook the reader’s interest or memory retention, Dekko Comics provide so many helpful tools for autistic readers through the natural comic book formula and entertainment focus:

Visual Teaching: 

Autistic people learn best with their eyes and ears, but will struggle to absorb the significance of words. Since most facts in the comic are communicated through visuals, the reader will find that even more accessible than most others. Their high sensitivity allows them to understand and remember information from visuals exceptionally well — and it helps that Dekko’s visuals are designed to be interesting and entertaining; thus ezra easy to remember. 

Humour 

By making it funny, it creates positive experiences for the reader as well as helps them relax. Special moments are important for children on the autistic spectrum, and so each funny moment that can make them laugh can also help them remember a fact a lot more as well as engage with the reading.

colour

Similarly to the benefits for dyslexia, colour adds more appeal to autistic readers. Simple dry text material an be overwhelming and just put them off a lot of the time. Colour-coded reading draws them into the reading, after the colourful drawings have drawn them into the page.

characters & story 

Children with autism latch onto characters, especially in the context of a good story they really engage with. Often they will open up and engage with the world a lot more when it is in the form of a character they like and recognise, and will relate things to the context of the story where that character’s from. Dekko feeds their imagination, and gets them to care about whatever facts they’re learning. Characters and sort make the educational content naturally accessible to readers with autism.

Comics Hold Many of the Same Value as Videos

Many children with autism learn a lot from he videos they watch, and find them very easy to engage with and relax into. 

Comics hold many of the same values. Characters, stories, creative inspiration, visual references, and simplified scenarios that are easy to follow. 

What’s more: because Dekko is full of facts and learning, children with autism will take real pleasure in absorbing the easily-absorbed facts that the comic offers — in a way that doesn’t feel like school. 

Provides a Common Language Between the Parent and the Reader 

You can establish a common symbolic language through the characters and stories of Dekko For example, if your child loves The Doctopus, you can reference to that character and the underwater patients he treats.

This is very helpful for autistic children as a means of engaging them further with their school work, helping them understand concepts, and other such skills. 

Link Between Inner & External World

Since many children with autism live in their own heads, it can sometimes be a great challenge to engage them with the real world. 

But since Dekko teaches about real-world facts, this can be a great link to getting children interested in and interacting with the real world more. 

For example, if they enjoy a comic story about when Tracey Time visits the Colosseum, this can be used as a great link to get your child interested in Roman history — and then Rome, then Italy and so on. 

You can use the comics and the lessons covered (with the characters and stories they like) to relate them to the real world and build the bridge of intrigue between the inner world and the outer world for your child.