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Direct linkNaples, Adam; Tenenbaum, Elena J.; Jones, Richard N.; Righi, Giulia; Sheinkopf, Stephen J.; Eigsti, Inge-Marie – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Approximately 30% of autistic children are considered minimally verbal. The field lacks an efficient and reliable measure of communicative capacity among minimally verbal autistic children. Improved methods are needed to determine which children are at greatest risk for minimally verbal outcomes to better target interventions. Here, we present the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Children, Communication Skills, Verbal Communication
Mrachko, Alicia A.; Kaczmarek, Louise A.; Kostewicz, Douglas E.; Vostal, Brooks – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2023
We examined adult behavioral skills training (BST) for home-based therapeutic support staff (TSS) using a naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) with young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) derived from Project ImPACT. We taught three TSS to use interactive strategies with online modules, in-vivo training, and ongoing…
Descriptors: Training, Home Programs, Behavior Modification, Young Children
DeVeney, Shari L.; Kyvelidou, Anastasia; Mather, Paris – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2021
Background and Aims: The purpose of this exploratory study was to expand existing literature on prelinguistic vocalizations by reporting results of the first home-based longitudinal study examining a wide variety of behaviors and characteristics, including early vocalizations, across infants at low and elevated risk of autism spectrum disorder…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Infants, Child Development, At Risk Persons
Plumb, Allison M.; Wetherby, Amy M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors aimed to examine the vocalizations of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the second year of life and their relationship to other areas of development. Method: Vocalizations were examined in 125 children between ages 18 and 24 months: 50 later diagnosed with ASD, 25 with developmental delays (DD) in…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
Fey, Marc E.; Yoder, Paul J.; Warren, Steven F.; Bredin-Oja, Shelley L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: The authors sought to determine whether a program of 5 weekly doses of milieu communication teaching (MCT) would yield improvements in children's communication and word use compared with a once-weekly delivery of the same treatment. Method: Sixty-four children with intellectual and communication delay were randomly assigned to receive…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Toddlers, Milieu Therapy, Communication Strategies
Maljaars, Jarymke; Noens, Ilse; Jansen, Rianne; Scholte, Evert; van Berckelaer-Onnes, Ina – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
In this study we characterized profiles of communicative functions and forms of children with autism and intellectual disability (n = 26), as compared to typically developing children (n = 26) with a comparable nonverbal mental age (2-5 years). Videotapes of the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales--Developmental Profile were analyzed using…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Mental Age, Mental Retardation, Autism
Peer reviewedWeitzner-Lin, Barbara – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 1997
This study analyzed the quality and quantity of intentional communication in four toddlers with Down Syndrome (DS) and eight subjects matched for either chronological or developmental age. Analysis of Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scale scores indicated that DS subjects expressed different communicative functions and used different…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Downs Syndrome, Language Acquisition, Manual Communication
