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Howlin, Patricia – Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1982
Investigates the syntactical level of spontaneous and echolalic utterances of 26 autistic boys at different stages of phrase speech development. Speech samples were collected over a 90-minute period in unstructured settings in participants' homes. Imitations were not deliberately elicited, and only unprompted, noncommunicative echoes were…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Communication Research, Developmental Disabilities
Download full textPierce, Sandra; Bartolucci, Giampiero – 1976
The syndrome of childhood autism is typified by major abnormalities in language development, yet there are few systematic descriptions of autistic children's linguistic systems. This paper represents the beginning of a comprehensive investigation of the language of verbal autistic children and concentrates on comparing the syntax used by ten…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Delayed Speech, Grammar
