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Smith, Tristram; Eikeseth, Svein; Klevstrand, Morten; Lovaas, O. Ivar – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1997
A study accessed the outcomes achieved by preschoolers with both severe mental retardation and autistic features who received intensive Lovass (O Ivar) behavioral treatment (n=11) and those who received minimal treatment (n=10). Results found that the intensively treated children obtained a higher mean IQ and evinced more expressive speech.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Ability, Developmental Disabilities, Expressive Language
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Direct linkYoder, P.; Camarata, S.; Gardner, E. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2005
This purpose of this randomized group experiment was (a) to test the post-treatment (i.e., immediately after treatment) and follow-up (i.e., 8 months after the end of treatment) efficacy of a treatment designed to facilitate both sentence length and speech intelligibility (i.e., broad target recast), and (b) to explore whether pretreatment speech…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Expressive Language, Effect Size, Outcomes of Treatment
