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Barokova, Mihaela; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
The role of language in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), more specifically, its function in social communication and strong predictive power on future outcomes, warrants language assessments that have good psychometric properties that capture the heterogeneity of language ability found among diagnosed individuals. Given the rapid growth in…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Natural Language Processing, Outcome Measures
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Veness, Carly; Prior, Margot; Bavin, Edith; Eadie, Patricia; Cini, Eileen; Reilly, Sheena – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Prospective questionnaire data from a longitudinal population sample on children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), developmental delay, specific language impairment, or typical development (TD), were collected at ages eight, 12 and 24 months, via the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scale Developmental Profile (CSBS)--Infant Toddler…
Descriptors: Autism, Language Impairments, Young Children, Comparative Analysis
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Smith, Isabel M.; Koegel, Robert L.; Koegel, Lynn K.; Openden, Daniel A.; Fossum, Kristin L.; Bryson, Susan E. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2010
The Nova Scotia early intensive behavior intervention model--NS EIBI (Bryson et al., 2007) for children with autistic spectrum disorders was designed to be feasible and sustainable in community settings. It combines parent training and naturalistic one-to-one behavior intervention employing Pivotal Response Treatment--PRT (R. Koegel & Koegel,…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Autism, Receptive Language, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Murray, Donna S.; Creaghead, Nancy A.; Manning-Courtney, Patricia; Shear, Paula K.; Bean, Judy; Prendeville, Jo-Anne – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2008
The relationship between initiation of and response to joint attention and components of receptive and expressive language in 20 children with autism between the ages of 3 and 5 years were examined. Receptive language skills were assessed using the "Mullen Scales of Early Learning" (MSEL). Expressive language skills were evaluated by examining…
Descriptors: Autism, Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Language Skills
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Ingersoll, Brooke; Dvortcsak, Anna; Whalen, Christina; Sikora, Darryn – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2005
Developmental, social-pragmatic (DSP) interventions are based on the study of interactions between typically developing infants and their mothers. Despite the fact that DSP approaches are firmly grounded in developmental theory, there is limited research on the efficacy of these interventions for promoting social-communicative behavior in young…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Therapy, Intervention
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Thurm, Audrey; Lord, Catherine; Lee, Li-Ching; Newschaffer, Craig – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
In 118 children followed from age 2 to 5 (59 with autism, 24 with PDD-NOS and 35 with non-spectrum developmental disabilities), age 2 and age 3 scores of non-verbal ability, receptive communication, expressive communication and socialization were compared as predictors of receptive and expressive language at age 5. Non-verbal cognitive ability at…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Receptive Language, Preschool Children, Language Acquisition