Teaching receptive naming of Chinese characters to children with autism by incorporating echolalia

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-68

  Leung, Jin Pang ^a   Wu, Kit I ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Autism; Chinese characters; Echolalia; Generalization; Receptive naming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECHOLALIA; EDUCATION; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ECHOLALIA; EDUCATION OF MENTALLY RETARDED; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HONG KONG; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031085968     PISSN: 00218855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.1997.30-59     Document Type: Article

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