Teaching VOCA use as a communicative repair strategy

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 411-422

  Sigafoos, Jeff ^a   Drasgow, Eric ^b   Halle, James W ^c   O'reilly, Mark ^a   Seely York, Sue ^a   Edrisinha, Chaturi ^a   Andrews, Alonzo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d Autism Treatment Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentative and alternative communication; behavior indication; communicative repair; prelinguistic behavior; requesting; voice output communication aid

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICATION AID; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVICE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT; TEACHING; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VOICE;

EID: 4344604351     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JADD.0000037417.04356.9c     Document Type: Article

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