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Law, Gloria C.; Neihart, Maureen; Dutt, Anuradha – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Communication intervention in early life can significantly impact long-term outcomes for young children with autism. Parents can be vital resources in the midst of the current manpower shortage. "Map4speech" is a new mobile application developed for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. It is specially designed to provide…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Intervention
Parker, Ellen – 1976
Gestural behavior between mothers and young children was hypothesized to be important in the acquisition of communicative competence. It was presumed that a typology of gestural function could assess non-verbal behavior. Data consisted of sound film samples of feeding and bathing events of three subject pairs. Initially the children ranged in age…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Body Language, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)