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Yoder, Paul J.; Layton, Thomas L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1988
Sixty minimally verbal autistic children (mean age five years) were exposed to one of four language training conditions: speech alone, sign alone, or simultaneous or alternate presentation of speech and sign. Regardless of training condition, pretreatment verbal imitation ability positively predicted the size of child-initiated spoken vocabulary…
Descriptors: Autism, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps