Brief report: Question-Asking and collateral language acquisition in children with autism

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 509-515

  Koegel, Lynn Kern ^a   Koegel, Robert L ^a   Green Hopkins, Israel ^a,b   Barnes, Cynthia Carter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Initiations; Language; Prepositions; Question asking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMMUNICATION SKILL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; TEACHING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77954459147     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-009-0896-z     Document Type: Article

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