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Peer reviewedRydell, Patrick J.; Mirenda, Pat – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1991
This study of 3 boys (ages 5-6) with autism found that adult high-constraint antecedent utterances elicited more verbal utterances in general, including subjects' echolalia; adult low-constraint utterances elicited more subject high-constraint utterances; and the degree of adult-utterance constraint did not influence the mean lengths of subjects'…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Echolalia, Interpersonal Communication
