Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit difficulties with social communication skills that negatively impacts quality of life. Training parents to implement effective interventions that improve the social communication skills of children with ASD may facilitate parent-child interaction and ameliorate the impact of social…

The paper reviews and critiques research on incidental language teaching, a method which refers to interactions between an adult and a child that arise naturally in an unstructured situation and that are used systematically by the adult to transmit new information or give the child practice in developing a communication skill. Studies of this…

A program was implemented to increase the manual signing of five profoundly retarded (mean age, 19 years) and four autistic (mean age, 9 years) youth within their daily environment. (Author)

The study evaluated the effectiveness of teaching three teachers of the severely handicapped to use four modified incidental teaching procedures: (1) giving students opportunities for choice; (2) blocking access to materials or events, (3) placing desired materials out of reach, and (4) offering students objects out of context. (Author/DB)