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Alapika Jatkar; Dunia Garrido; Shuting Zheng; Greyson Silverman; Heba Elsayed; Paige Huguely Davis; Helen Lee; Elizabeth R. Crais; John Sideris; Lauren Turner-Brown; Grace T. Baranek; Linda R. Watson; Rebecca Grzadzinski – Journal of Early Intervention, 2023
Baseline child characteristics may predict treatment outcomes in children with or at elevated likelihood of developing autism (EL-ASD). Little is known about the role of child sensory and language features on treatment outcome. Participants were randomly assigned to a parent-mediated intervention or control condition. Analyses explored the…
Descriptors: Toddlers, At Risk Persons, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Yeganehpour, Parisa; Zarfsaz, Elham – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2022
In the educational setting, learning style plays an important role since individuals are unlike in terms of their learning styles. As the area of modern language, teaching and learning has evolved over the last several decades. The instructors and students have seen a number of significant shifts in language teaching, learning techniques and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
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Feldman, Jacob I.; Raj, Sweeya; Bowman, Sarah M.; Santapuram, Pooja; Golden, Alexandra J.; Daly, Claire; Dunham, Kacie; Suzman, Evan; Augustine, Ashley E.; Garla, Varsha; Muhumuza, Aine; Cascio, Carissa J.; Williams, Kathryn L.; Kirby, Anne V.; Keceli-Kaysili, Bahar; Woynaroski, Tiffany G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Differences in communication development impact long-term outcomes of children with autism. Previous research has identified factors associated with communication in children with autism, but much of the variance in communication skill remains unexplained. It has been proposed that early differences in sensory responsiveness (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Infants, Siblings
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Lee, Helen Y.; Vigen, Cheryl; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Smith, Isabel M.; Brian, Jessica; Watson, Linda R.; Crais, Elizabeth R.; Baranek, Grace T. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
This study examines the construct validity of the First-Year Inventory 2.0 with respect to other established instruments in a sample of high-risk infant siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The First-Year Inventory 2.0 is a parent-report screening instrument designed to identify 12-month-old infants at risk for an eventual diagnosis…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Construct Validity, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Ward, Sandra C.; Whalon, Kelly; Rusnak, Katrina; Wendell, Kimberly; Paschall, Nancy – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
This study investigated the association between therapeutic riding (TR) and the social communication and sensory processing skills of 21 elementary students with autism attending TR as part of a school group. An interrupted treatment design was employed to determine whether children were able to maintain treatment effects following the removal of…
Descriptors: Horses, Correlation, Therapeutic Recreation, Communication Skills
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Dewrang, Petra; Sandberg, Annika Dahlgren – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2010
Development and behavior during the first 2 years of life was assessed retrospectively by the parents to 23 adolescents and young adults with Asperger syndrome and 13 typically developing adolescents and young adults. The groups were matched on chronological age and the participants were within the normal range of intelligence. The questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Asperger Syndrome, Questionnaires, Young Adults
Brownell, Marni D.; Whiteley, John H. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1992
Two experiments, involving a total of 126 subjects with mental retardation (mental age from 5-11 years), found that subjects were less likely than controls to employ the "difference rule" (communicate to the listener how a referent is different from other stimuli) and that perceptual feedback training enhances referential communication…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Feedback, Interpersonal Communication
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Cooper, Robin Panneton; Aslin, Richard N. – Child Development, 1994
Examined infants' tendency, from a few days to nine months of age, to prefer infant-directed over adult-directed speech. Results suggest that exaggerated pitch contours that characterize infant-directed speech may become salient communicative signals for infants through language-rich, interactive experiences with caretakers and increased…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Caregiver Speech, Child Development, Cognitive Processes