NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McDaniel, Jena; Yoder, Paul; Estes, Annette; Rogers, Sally J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This study was designed to test the incremental validity of more expensive vocal development variables relative to less expensive variables for predicting later expressive language in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We devote particular attention to the added value of coding the quality of vocalizations over the quantity of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Expressive Language, Verbal Communication
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Crandall, Madison C.; McDaniel, Jena; Watson, Linda R.; Yoder, Paul J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate if higher quantity, diversity, and grammatical informativeness of verb phrases in parent follow-in utterances (i.e., utterances that mapped onto child attentional leads) were significantly related to later expressive verb vocabulary in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Method: We…
Descriptors: Verbs, Vocabulary, Children, Parents
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McDaniel, Jena; Yoder, Paul; Watson, Linda R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
We examined direct and indirect paths involving receptive vocabulary and diversity of key consonants used in communication (DKCC) to improve understanding of why previously identified value-added predictors are associated with later expressive vocabulary for initially preverbal children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 87). Intentional…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Path Analysis, Models