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Peer reviewedBaltaxe, Christiane A. M.; Guthrie, Donald – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1987
The study examined the use of primary sentence stress by seven preschool autistic children with mean length of utterance (MLU) scores between 1.9 and 4.1 morphemes with normal and aphasic subjects serving as controls. Differences were seen in the number of correct responses and in the pattern of stress misassignment. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Autism, Language Acquisition, Speech Skills
Download full textHooshyar, Nahid T. – 1986
A 20-minute videotape sample was obtained of the language interactions between 20 Down syndrome children (ages 38 to 107 months) and their mothers during informal playtime. Linguistic utterances of mothers and children were coded according to the following language categories: query, declarative, imperative, performative, feedback, imitation,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Downs Syndrome, Expressive Language
