Teaching children with autism self-initiations as a pivotal response

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 134-145

  Koegel, Lynn Kern ^a   Carter, Cynthia M ^a   Koegel, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Grammatical acquisition; Language interventions; Morphology; Pivotal behaviors; Self initiations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037833521     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00011363-200304000-00006     Document Type: Article

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