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Bellon-Harn, Monica L.; Harn, William E.; Watson, Gina D. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2007
A fundamental deficit in children with high-functioning autism (HFA) is social communicative competence. Atypical prosody in variable forms has been implicated in contributing to this deficit. The purpose of this case study was to describe the clinical management of an eight-year-old child with HFA for whom prosody became the primary target of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Communicative Competence (Languages), Autism, Interpersonal Communication
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Stanley, Gillian C.; Konstantareas, M. Mary – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
The relationship between symbolic play and other domains, such as degree of autistic symptomatology, nonverbal cognitive ability, receptive language, expressive language, and social development, was investigated. The assessment files of 101 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder were studied. Nonverbal cognitive ability and expressive language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Social Development, Receptive Language, Play
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Delinicolas, Erin K.; Young, Robyn L. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
This study aimed to investigate the relationships between abilities to initiate and respond to joint attention and symptoms of autism that have, and have not, been theoretically linked to joint attention. Participants were 51 boys and five girls with autistic disorder, aged between 2 years and 6 years 5 months. Measures of joint attention…
Descriptors: Autism, Attention, Young Children, Social Behavior
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Selassie, G. Rejno-Habte; Viggedal, G.; Olsson, I.; Jennische, M. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2008
We studied expressive and receptive language, oral motor ability, attention, memory, and intelligence in 20 6-year-old children with epilepsy (14 females, six males; mean age 6y 5mo, range 6y-6y 11mo) without learning disability, cerebral palsy (CP), and/or autism, and in 30 reference children without epilepsy (18 females, 12 males; mean age 6y…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Autism, Learning Disabilities, Seizures
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Roberts, Jacqueline M. A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1989
The study with 10 autistic children (ages 4-17) found that those children with poor receptive language skills produced significantly more echolalic utterances than those children whose receptive skills were more age-appropriate. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Echolalia, Incidence
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Conti-Ramsden, Gina; Simkin, Zoe; Botting, Nicola – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: Traditionally, autism and specific language impairment (SLI) have been regarded as distinct disorders but, more recently, evidence has been put forward for a closer link between them: a common set of language problems, in particular receptive language difficulties and the existence of intermediate cases including pragmatic language…
Descriptors: Incidence, Autism, Language Impairments, Adolescents
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Luyster, Rhiannon; Lopez, Kristina; Lord, Catherine – Journal of Child Language, 2007
Characterizing early communicative development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is valuable for understanding profiles of ability in this population. The current investigation was modeled on Charman, Drew, Baird & Baird (2003b). Analyses explored parent report of early vocabulary, non-verbal communication, functional object use and…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Play, Mental Age, Autism
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Carr, Edward G.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Studies two groups of autistic children--good versus poor verbal imitators--within the context of a receptive label acquisition task. Both groups acquired receptive signs. However, good imitators acquired receptive speech whereas poor imitators typically did not. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Autism, Language Acquisition, Predictor Variables, Receptive Language
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Toth, Karen; Dawson, Geraldine; Meltzoff, Andrew N.; Greenson, Jessica; Fein, Deborah – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Studies are needed to better understand the broad autism phenotype in young siblings of children with autism. Cognitive, adaptive, social, imitation, play, and language abilities were examined in 42 non-autistic siblings and 20 toddlers with no family history of autism, ages 18-27 months. Siblings, as a group, were below average in expressive…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Cognitive Ability, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development
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Handleman, Jan S.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1984
The relationship between the use of concrete objects and pictorial representations of those objects when teaching noun labels to 3 autistic boys was analyzed. Although results indicated no consistent functional relationship between the two types of stimulus presentation, there were varying degrees of generalization between the two conditions.…
Descriptors: Autism, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Nouns
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Charlop, Marjorie H. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1983
Two experiments, with about five autistic children (two to 14 years old) in each experiment, assessed the effects of autistic immediate echolalia on acquisition and generalization of receptive labeling tasks. These results indicated that echolalia faciliated generalization for echolalic autistic children but not for functionally mute autistic…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Modification, Echolalia, Generalization
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Gamliel, Ifat; Yirmiya, Nurit; Sigman, Marian – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Cognitive and language skills of 39 siblings of children with autism (SIBS-A) and 39 siblings of typically developing children (SIBS-TD) at ages 4, 14, 24, 36, and 54 months were compared. Twelve of the 39 SIBS-A revealed a delay in cognition and/or language (including one child diagnosed with autism) compared to only two SIBS-TD. Developmental…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Siblings, Language Aptitude, Expressive Language
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Paul, Rhea; Chawarska, Katarzyna; Fowler, Carol; Cicchetti, Domenic; Volkmar, Fred – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: This study tests the hypothesis that toddlers with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) will show differences from contrast groups in preferences for attending to speech. Method: This study examined auditory preferences in toddlers with ASD and matched groups of (a) typical age-mates, (b) age-mates with nonautistic developmental disabilities,…
Descriptors: Matched Groups, Toddlers, Research Methodology, Language Patterns
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Price, J.; Roberts, J.; Vandergrift, N.; Martin, G. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2007
Background: Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common known inherited cause of intellectual disability, yet very few studies have explored the language comprehension skills of children with FXS. We examined the receptive vocabulary, grammatical morphology and syntax skills of boys with FXS (who were additionally classified as having autism,…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Down Syndrome, Syntax, Sentences
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Cantwell, Dennis; And Others – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1978
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Comparative Analysis, Echolalia
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