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Peer reviewedBebko, James M. – Sign Language Studies, 1990
Review of literature on indicators of the effectiveness of language intervention programs for autistic children showed that mitigation in echolalia was a critical characteristic, as it implied that the prerequisites for language were accessible through speech. Children whose speech ranged from mutism to unmitigated echolalia had a more negative…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Echolalia, Expressive Language
