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Wiklund, Mari; Laakso, Minna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
This paper analyses disfluencies and ungrammatical expressions in the speech of 11-13-year-old Finnish-speaking boys with ASD (N = 5) and with neurotypical development (N = 6). The ASD data were from authentic group therapy sessions and neurotypical data from teacher-led group discussions. The proportion of disfluencies and ungrammatical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Impairments, Grammar, Error Patterns
Torres-Viso, Mariana Siku – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Previous research on the use of voice output communication aids (VOCAs) has found a number of positive effects on the behavior of both the VOCA user and their communicative partners. Among these outcomes, studies have found that incorporating speech output into language learning tasks may result in faster and more efficient learning for adults…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Williams, David; Payne, Heather; Marshall, Chloe – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
Language-impaired individuals with autism perform poorly on tests such as non-word repetition that are sensitive clinical markers of specific language impairment (SLI). This has fuelled the theory that language impairment in autism represents a co-morbid SLI. However, the underlying cause of these deficits may be different in each disorder. In a…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Autism, Language Impairments, Cognitive Ability