This project is conducted to identify some characteristics of an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) student, plan, implement and assess strategies that can assist his listening and speaking learning process of acquiring English as a foreign language.

This research´s main problem was based on the idea that some of the ASD characteristics may affect the learning of English as a foreign language. Therefore, the aim of this investigation was to help these students in their process of acquiring English as a foreign Language especially in the listening and speaking skills, using new strategies focusing on a relationship based on their own potentialities and needs.

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This research project was conducted qualitative method research based on a case study. Due to the fact this is a case study the subject was an elementary eight-year-old child from Costa Rica, and his English teacher. Moreover, seven strategies were applied and assessed to see how effective those strategies in the English classroom were and in the development of the language for the student.

The results showed that the student had a better performance English when applying the suggested strategies. Many of the strategies proposed by the teacher were very successful; however, not all of them.