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Gidley Larson, Jennifer C.; Suchy, Yana – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
It is unknown if children with high-functioning autism (HFA) employ self-directed speech to guide motor sequencing and motor control, or if they can benefit from using self-directed speech when prompted to do so. Participants performed a three-movement sequence across three conditions: Natural Learning, Task-Congruent Verbalization (TCV), and…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Speech Communication, Verbal Communication
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Kingsdorf, Sheri – Childhood Education, 2014
One of the domains most commonly affected by autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is communication (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Language deficits in children with ASD can be as severe as to warrant a label as nonverbal, or characterized by difficulties with the functions of communication. Additionally, deficits in language for children…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Impairments, Communication Problems
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Spencer, Trina D.; Higbee, Thomas S. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2012
Children with autism often use newly acquired language in restricted contexts and with limited variability. Instructional tactics that embed generalization technology have shown promise for increasing spontaneity, response variation, and the generalized use of language across settings, people, and materials. In this study, we explored the…
Descriptors: Autism, Generalization, Language Usage, Scripts
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Heilker, Paul; Yergeau, Melanie – College English, 2011
Autism is a profoundly rhetorical phenomenon. And all--parents, educators, caregivers, policymakers, the public, and autistic people themselves--would be significantly empowered to understand and respond to it as such. In the continuing absence of stable scientific or medical knowledge about autism, one needs to shine a bright and insistent light…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Autism, Language Usage, English Instruction
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Venuti, P.; de Falco, S.; Esposito, G.; Zaninelli, M.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Children with developmental disabilities benefit from their language environment as much as, or even more than, typically developing (TD) children, but maternal language directed to developmentally delayed children is an underinvestigated topic. The purposes of the present study were to compare maternal functional language directed to children…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Down Syndrome, Developmental Delays
Bonnet, Lauren Kravetz – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This single-subject research study was designed to examine the effects of point-of-view video modeling (POVM) on the symbolic play actions and play-associated language of four preschool students with autism. A multiple baseline design across participants was conducted in order to evaluate the effectiveness of using POVM as an intervention for…
Descriptors: Autism, Preschool Children, Video Technology, Models
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Rydell, 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
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Forsey, Janice; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1996
A study of five adult males with autism investigated which combination of input/output modalities (typed or spoken) enhanced the syntactic, semantic, and/or pragmatic performance of individuals with autism when engaging in conversations with a normal language adult. Results found that typed communications facilitated the use of longer utterances.…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Skills