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Lawley, Grace O.; Bedrick, Steven; MacFarlane, Heather; Dolata, Jill K.; Salem, Alexandra C.; Fombonne, Eric – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Pragmatic language difficulties, including unusual filler usage, are common among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This study investigated "um" and "uh" usage in children with ASD and typically developing (TD) controls. We analyzed transcribed Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) sessions for 182 children…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Usage
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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